TV News Search Borrow
http://archive.org/details/tv Internet Archive site. This service is designed to help USA citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts from relevant television news programmes. The collection now contains 350,000 news programmes collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San […]
Tweeting #OWS
http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University. Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected. The site includes timeline of key events, plus useful maps and word clouds which allow hastags and trends to be mapped over time. See the data analysis section for methodology and techniques: http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/about/data-analysis/
Bishopsgate Institute Library and Archive: new online exhibitions
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ Since 2010 the London based Bishopsgate Institute has been digitizing some of its major archival collections. Key strengths includes various collections on London, labour, freethought and radicalism. Recent additions include the Morning star photographic archive – view photographs this has over 300 online images relating to industrial relations, strikes and unions most from 1960s […]
IPSA Gender Monitoring Report 2011
http://www.ipsa.org/publications/gender_monitoring Published by the International Political Studies Association this annual report monitors female representation in political science. The survey was conducted by IPSA from August to November 2011. A total of 38 of the 50 national political science associations (PSAs) responded. It includes statistics on the status and level of women in political science in […]
Relaunched (with expanded content): Associated Press Archive
http://www.aparchive.com/ AP Archive is the film and video archive of the Associated Press The collection includes over 1.3 million global news and entertainment stories beginning in 1895 it also includes some materials from AP partners ABC News, TVAM, British Movietone and the Press Association. The site is fully searchable and there are compilations on themed […]
American Presidential Nominations
The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards. Recent ones include YouTube videos. President Obama’s September 6th speech is likely to be added there shortly. Mitt Romney’s speech is already up. The official Obama website campaign has videos of remarks from the convention including Michelle Obama’s speech. http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/in-case-you-missed-it-julian-castro-and-michelle-obama Unusual […]
British Future
http://www.britishfuture.org/ British Future is a new independent, non-partisan think tank which is seeking to involve people in an open conversation, which addresses people’s hopes and fears about identity and integration, migration and opportunity. Its website lists events and news aimed at encouraging cohesiveness and has some case histories of individuals discussing what it means to be […]
EU Screen…
…launches some great new themed collections. http://www.euscreen.eu/exhibitions.html This EU funded project aims to digitise clips and programmes from major collections in Europe. The most recent exhibitions include: Sportswomen and Swedish TV from the 1950s-1980s; Civil rights in Northern Ireland 1968-69 RTE coverage; Being European(changing conceptions of EU membership/ identity).
National Archives timeline of foreign offices
http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/08/foreign-affairs-timeline/ The UK National Archives have created a really useful visualisation of name changes and responsibilities of UK Foreign Affairs government departs from 1945 onwards on their labs website.The links click through to the Discovery catalogue where you can trace information and lists of records held by the archives for the individual department.
Watching Syria’s war: New York Times project
http://projects.nytimes.com/watching-syrias-war is focusing on videos and films from Syria uploaded to the Internet during the conflict. It is examining the sources and claims made about them by activists and the Syrian government in order to assess what is really known about them. Mashable also has a useful article on social media use in the conflict. […]
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