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- https://www.climatewatchdata.org/
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Nature, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Databases, Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Web Links
A free online platform designed to provide advanced researchers with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate change. The platform, managed by the World Resource Institute, brings together dozens of datasets for the first time and allows users to analyse and compare the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, access historical emissions data, discover how countries can leverage their climate goals to achieve their sustainable development objectives, and use models to map new pathways to a lower carbon. The site can be searched by Countries, Economic sector, Nationally Determined Contribution, Global Historical Gas Emissions and Future Scenarios, where users can model projections of emissions.
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- Link
- http://www.birdlife.org/
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- Bio-Medical
- Subject
- Biology, Nature
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Web Links
BirdLife groups together over 120 organisations worldwide that strive to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity. Their website includes a Data Zone section which presents a wealth of scientific data on the world’s bird species and the sites critical to their conservation. This information can be easily viewed at national and territorial level using the Country Profiles searching capabilities; there is also a Case Studies section, and a Seabird Tracking Database, which contains the largest collection of seabird data in the world. This data can be searched and viewed within the site, but access to the actual data is restricted.
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- http://edn.network/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Lists, Organisations, Podcasting, Web Links
EDN is a meeting point for all documentary professionals working in the film and TV industries. It has around 1000 members from more than 60 countries, including production companies, producers, directors and other film professionals, distributors, associations, film institutions & boards, broadcasters, universities and festivals. The key service of EDN are to provide information to its members on co-production and other kinds of collaboration across borders, the international potential of a project, where to take a finished film, distribution, festivals and markets, the EU MEDIA Programme and other funding options, documentary training programmes and production contacts in other countries.
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- http://www.culturalequity.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Ethnology, Languages, Music, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Lists, Streaming/Download
The idea that the expressive traditions of all local and ethnic cultures should be equally valued was at the heart of musicologist Alan Lomax’s career. His Sound, Photograph and Video collections, which are the legacy of his extensive field research carried out between 1946-1990, can now be accessed online via the Cultural Equity website. Gems include The New Orleans Jazz Interviews (1949), the England and Wales folk songs (1951-1958), blues artist Big Bill Broonzy, Bessie Jones, and Caribbean 1962, just when the British West Indies were on the verge of independence. There are also three YouTube channels: The Alan Lomax Archive, which offers video clips from Lomax’s “American Patchwork” fieldwork (1978-1983), thus far including Mississippi Delta and Hill Country, Appalachia, New Orleans, Cajun Louisiana, Johns Island, SC; The Global Jukebox Channel with 600 recorded language examples collected by Lomax for Parlametrics, his study of speaking style, and the Cultural Equity Channel set up to provide Grenadians at home and in the Diaspora with an interactive online resource for Grenadian folkways and an outlet for cultural feedback.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://great78.archive.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This project, which is a collaboration between the Internet Archive, George Blood L.P. and the Archive of Contemporary Music, aims to preserve and make available digitised recordings of 78 rpm records. The project invites users to listen to the recordings, but also to help improve the metadata, curate the collections, help with research and to donate more recordings.
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- Link
- https://www.oyez.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Law
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This unofficial multimedia online archive features over 10,000 hours of oral arguments (in audio format) from the US Supreme Court, dating back to 1955. The project was started in 1997 by Jerry Goldman, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The site’s current incarnation features text, images, video and audio, all designed to clarify and explain the often convoluted and difficult to follow sessions of the court and is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the American legal system.
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- Link
- https://tvtropes.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Advertising, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Lists
This entertaining and informative site attempts to categorise, index and contextualise tropes - storytelling devices or conventions - as they appear in television programmes, films, games, music, literature, and other media. There are four main indexes: Genre Tropes, Media Tropes, Narrative Tropes and Topical Tropes. Each of these main headings is further subdivided so that under the Narrative Trope heading, for example, one can explore Characters, Conflict, Motifs Settings etc., down to a microscopic level of detail. The site began in 2004, primarily focusing on the television series ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’. Since then it has vastly expanded its scope to cover most types of media. Users can explore by series or trope. Each series entry features a list of tropes associated with that series, whereas users exploring by trope (British Teeth, for example) will find a list of that trope’s appearance in television, film, literature etc. Although the approach is often humorous the site represents an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring or analysing the building blocks of storytelling and narrative construction, in any medium, but particularly television.
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- http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Journals, Streaming/Download
Essays, advice, tips and guidelines to best practice aimed at anyone wanting to undertake an oral history project using the latest digital technologies, both audio and video. The site is an offshoot of the US journal The Oral History Review and covers cataloguing and metadata, digital preservation, equipment, transcription and all other aspects relating to the practical and theoretical side of oral history. A series of video interviews entitled ‘Thinking Big’ features experts talking about preservation, automatic speech recognition, the use of oral history in higher education, field recording, outreach etc.
Other Online
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- Link
- http://artincinema.com/
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Festivals, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Web Links
English-lamguage site featuring news, biographies and filmographies covering experimental and avant garde cinema in Eastern Europe, from the 1930s to the present day. Countries covered are the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. The site features a selection of videos (mainly short films) as well as documentaries, lectures and recordings of events about the avant garde and experimental film . There are links to other sites dealing with experimental film in the above countries, as well as information about festivals, galleries and exhibition spaces.
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- Link
- https://hearingthevoice.org/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This site features some of the work being undertaken by a large interdisciplinary study of voice-hearing based at Durham University and supported by the Wellcome Trust. The team includes academic researchers from cognitive neuroscience, English Literature, cultural studies, medical humanities, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, psychiatry and theology. The area of research explores the subjective experience of hearing voices. The site features a series of podcasts and other audio material available in the resources section of the site.