There are no required books for this course. Course readings and other required material will be linked to on the course website.
-The Internet Archive https://archive.org/
-The Wayback Machine https://archive.org/web/
-Library of Congress Twitter Archive
-Indian Memory Project: Tracing the History and Identity of the Indian Subcontinent via Images Found in Personal Archives https://www.indianmemoryproject.com/
-Akkasah Photography Archive https://akkasah.org/en/
-Genealogy databases
-Zooniverse (“People Powered Research”) https://www.zooniverse.org/
-FromthePage ("FromThePage is software for transcribing documents and collaborating on transcriptions with others.") https://fromthepage.com/
-Flicker/Commons(“Help Us Catalog the World’s Public Photo Archives”) https://www.flickr.com/commons
- Wikimedia Commons (“ a collection of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute”) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
-Project Gutenberg(“a library of over 60,000 free books”) https://www.gutenberg.org/
-Google Books https://books.google.com/
-Al Maktaba al Shamila (Arabic “Comprehensive Library”) https://shamela.ws/
-Qatar Digital Library (“This growing archive covers modern history and culture of the Gulf and wider region, available online for the first time”) https://www.qdl.qa/en
-Endangered Archives Programme (“EAP facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration”) https://eap.bl.uk/
-Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
-Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Historical Archives https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/
-Voyant Tools (“web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts”) https://voyant-tools.org/
-AntConc(“A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis”) https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
-Omeka (“open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions”) https://omeka.org/
-Library of Congress Labs LC labs(“A place to encourage innovation with Library of Congress digital collections”) https://labs.loc.gov/
- Google Sites https://sites.google.com/
- Zotero (“a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research”) https://www.zotero.org/