{"id":2291,"date":"2014-04-18T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:05:31","slug":"freely-available-and-totally-intriguing-online-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2014\/04\/18\/freely-available-and-totally-intriguing-online-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Freely-available and totally intriguing online collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2293\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/04\/ladysatan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2293 \" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/04\/ladysatan.jpg\" alt=\"Panels from a comic titled Lady Satan\" width=\"563\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/04\/ladysatan.jpg 958w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/04\/ladysatan-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2014\/04\/ladysatan-210x145.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panels from a Lady Satan comic from the Digital Comic Museum, screencapped by Saladin Ahmed: https:\/\/twitter.com\/saladinahmed\/status\/456142421768667136\/photo\/1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Are you a primary sources buff? An enthusiast for all things ephemeral? A lover of comics, vintage newsreels or magic? If so, you should check out these amazing, newly-published open collections.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/britishpathe\" target=\"_blank\">British Path\u00e9<\/a> &#8211; one of the leading producers of newsreels and documentaries during the 20th Century has shared its entire collection &#8212; over 85,000 historical films from 1896-1976 &#8212; on YouTube.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcomicmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Comic Museum<\/a> &#8211; Free access to hundreds of pre-1959 comic books, uploaded by users who often offer historical research and commentary alongside high-quality scans. Saladin Ahmed&#8217;s been finding some great comics featuring POC and women superheroes in the collection and sharing info about them on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saladinahmed\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/saladinahmed.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/search\/index?filters[physicalLocation_mtxt_s][]=Map+Division&amp;keywords=&amp;sort=dateDigitized_dt+desc\" target=\"_blank\">Open Access Maps<\/a> &#8211; Access (and download!) over 20,000 maps from the NYPL&#8217;s map collection. Want to see how the territories mapped in the old documents compare to present geography? Use the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.nypl.org\/warper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Map Warper<\/a> to digitally align, or &#8220;rectify,&#8221; the historical maps with contemporary ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hogwartsishere.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry<\/a> is offering aspiring wizards the chance to take free &amp; open online versions of the magical curriculum. And though this is a volunteer\/fan-supported project, we hear the instructors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2014\/04\/14\/hogwarts_is_here_is_like_a_mooc_for_harry_potter_fans_and_you_can_enroll.html\" target=\"_blank\">take their assessment work very seriously<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want to keep learning about these kinds of collections, as they&#8217;re made available? Some websites to keep checking are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_vault.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Vault<\/a> (Slate),\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/folklife\/\" target=\"_blank\">Folklife Today<\/a> (Library of Congress), and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/picturethis\/\">Picture This<\/a> (Library of Congress).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a primary sources buff? An enthusiast for all things ephemeral? A lover of comics, vintage newsreels or magic? If so, you should check out these amazing, newly-published open collections. British Path\u00e9 &#8211; one of the leading producers of newsreels and documentaries during the 20th Century has shared its &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12827,21723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-humanities","category-makerspace","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}