Hi Mia
Really interesting and helpful. Do you know if anyone has produced classroom resources for teachers on using digital collections / portals like these to support remote teaching etc.
Best
Jo
Jo-Anne Sunderland Bowe
Director, Heritec Limited
> On 14 Mar 2020, at 12:46, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear MCGers,
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> As many school and university classes are switching to some form of remote / online / distance learning (and people generally might be looking for entertainment or a culture fix), I've thrown together a quick list of online portals to digitised collections, 'tours', 'exhibitions', etc: http://www.openobjects.org.uk/2020/03/stuck-at-home-view-cultural-heritage-collections-online/
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> I've also created a Custom Search Engine in Google that's looking at https://search.creativecommons.org, https://sketchfab.com, https://www.wikipedia.org, https://eap.bl.uk, https://trove.nla.gov.au, https://dp.la, https://artuk.org, https://artsandculture.google.com, https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en, https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities. (I seem to be limited to ten entries, so I've had to be ruthless.)
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> I've focused on portals (with an exception to celebrate the Smithsonian's recent Open Access launch) because it's easier for people to search a few places than look through individual sites. As a side note, the richness of content available shows the value of all those past decades of digitisation...
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> However, I'm conscious that I'm missing portals for Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, South America, etc, except for content available via sites with an international focus such as the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme. Does anyone have suggestions to fill those gaps?
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> I'm also missing content produced on social media, whether that's 'live' tours, 'stories' or old-fashioned tweets and Instagram images. Is anyone collecting a list of those?
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> Cheers,
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> Mia
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