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Jun 14, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Internet Archive Blog: Keep on GIFin' — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive's GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine!. "We are excited to announce a new version of GifCities, […]
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Jun 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Calishat: No Kings TV. "I'm very interested in the protests which will occur tomorrow, but I'm worried about the disinformation and propaganda which will be flying around. … So I'm […]
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Jun 12, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Mashable: The best memes of 2025 (so far). "Memes are few and far between in 2025, but there are still some good ones. Why are memes so rare? Simply […]
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Jun 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Conversation: Scanning Australia's bones. "It helps researchers from all around the world study rare and extinct species remotely, compare skeletal features across a wide range of Australian vertebrates, and […]
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Jun 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Wisconsin Secretary of State: Secretary of State Godlewski: Launches public records database to increase transparency and improve access. "Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski today announced the launch of a new, […]
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Jun 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Game Developer: The Video Game History Foundation preserves the history of Myst in impressive archival feat. "The Cyan collection includes over 100 hours of video, charting the development of the […]
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Jun 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of New Mexico: CSWR and Special Collections releases first portion of Archdiocese of Santa Fe Institutional Abuse Collection. "The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR), part of […]
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Jun 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES NASA: NASA's Ready-to-Use Dataset Details Land Motion Across North America. "NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create a powerful web-based tool that will show the […]
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Jun 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of North Texas: Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection Digitized by a Generous Grant by The Recording Academy's GRAMMY Museum Grants Program . "Thanks to a generous grant by […]
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Jun 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Rice University: Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories. "Generations of silence are giving way to spoken truth through a new project at Rice University. In […]
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Jun 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: From screen to page: Cahiers du cinéma on Google Arts & Culture. "Google Arts & Culture digitized 820 issues spanning 74 years of publications. This involved digitizing over […]
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Jun 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Emily White: ?? 80 Music Startups: A Curated Guide. "Over the past year, I've spoken with 100 founders, creatives, technologists and fans working across the music stack (in between a […]
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Jun 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES CODART: Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw. New Series Now Fully Digitized. "Launched in print in 2012, the journal will now be published exclusively online, making it more accessible […]
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Jun 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found via Calishat Snaps: IndieSeas. From the front page: "IndieSeas is a search engine made exclusively for the indieweb. It scrapes based on 88×31 buttons, while respecting privacy and robots.txt […]
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Jun 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hürriyet Daily News : Manuscript collection now accessible online. "The manuscript collection of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (TIEM), which has a significant place among manuscript archives in […]
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Jun 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Conversation: How remembering railway accidents from 100 years ago can make the industry safer today. "The Railway Work, Life & Death project has added nearly 70,000 cases of worker […]
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Jun 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Washington State Office of the Attorney General: WA launches police use-of-force database. "The Attorney General's Office announced today the launch of the Washington State Data Exchange for Public Safety (WADEPS), […]
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Jun 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES PRWeb: EBSCO Information Services Continues to Grow Magazine Archive Collection with Release of The Hockey News Magazine Archive (PRESS RELEASE). "The Hockey News Magazine Archive offers significant value to historians, […]
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Jun 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UCLA: National shade map from UCLA and American Forests launched to combat deadly urban heat. "The Shade Map, now available through American Forests' Tree Equity Score platform, shows where shade […]
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Jun 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: New NCTR research identifies 140 Oblate priests and brothers who served in residential schools, aiding Survivor research. " Through research, agreements and dialogue with […]
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Jun 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Explore Technology in the 20th Century with our new Primary Source Set. "As our society is consistently generating new and advanced technologies, looking back to these prior advancements can […]
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Jun 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UK Government: UK Government launches newly digitised historic editions of world's oldest English language daily newspaper. "First published in September 1737, the News Letter will mark its 288th anniversary as […]
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Jun 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of California: Ready for the summer: Governor Newsom announces lifesaving heat-ranking tool, invests $32 million to help communities combat extreme heat. "CalHeatScore, developed by the California Environmental Protection Agency's […]
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Jun 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Nyongesa Sande News: New Platform Centralizes African AI Policies into One Searchable Database. "A major step toward transparent AI governance in Africa was taken today with the launch of the […]
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May 31, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Canary: 40 years on, an astonishing new archive documents the Battle of the Beanfield. "1 June 2025 sees the 40th anniversary of the ‘Battle of the Beanfield' - one […]
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May 31, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Guelph: Free Learning Materials on Equity, Disability Launched by U of G Researchers . "Bodies in Translation's (BIT) Worlding Difference Platform is an online platform and research project […]
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May 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Celebrating Africa's Rich Heritage and Vibrant Culture This Africa Month. "Africa Day, celebrated every year on May 25th, marks the 1963 founding of the African Union. It's a […]
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May 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Neatnik Notes: Seizing the means of discovery. "The early web directories were born out of necessity, because alternatives (search engines) didn't exist yet. Today, the alternatives often leave us disappointed. […]
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May 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The National: Rare aerial archive images of UAE capture nation's transformation. "The photographs, taken from the 1940s onwards, trace the sand dunes, water wells, forts and barasti homes of the […]
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May 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES McMaster University: Special conference and online archive commemorate 40th anniversary of Air India bombing. "Forty years after the Air India bombing, McMaster researchers are bringing together scholars, community members and […]
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May 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Manchester: The University of Manchester launches groundbreaking ‘Digital Dante Library'. "The University of Manchester is set to launch the Manchester Digital Dante Library, a landmark digital collection which […]
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May 27, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Roundtable: Google AI Overviews Expand Again & Lead To 10% Query Growth. "Surprise, surprise, as I called it, Google is expanding AI Overviews into more regions. I […]
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May 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Peninsula: Qatar Museums brings over 1,000 curated masterpieces to Online Collection platform. "Qatar Museums announced the launch of its new Online Collection platform, providing virtual access to over 1,000 […]
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May 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Euronews Albania: 52 Years Since the Spaç Uprising, Former Prisoners Recall the Hell They Endured. " The Authority for Information on Former State Security Documents (AIDSSH) organized an event at […]
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May 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Signal Akron: From the stage to the computer screen: Weathervane Playhouse digitizes archive at the University of Akron. "For several semesters, [Mat] Cruz worked to digitally catalog the community theater's […]
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May 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Michigan: U-M develops free tool to empower municipalities, modernize financial reporting. "When Congress passed the Financial Data and Transparency Act in 2022, it required most municipalities in the […]
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May 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ActuAI: Watershed Launches Free Version of Its Climate Database. "Watershed, a platform specializing in corporate sustainability, announced on May 22 the public release of its global carbon data archive, the […]
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May 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Historic England: Historic England Launches Local Heritage Hub to Unlock Hidden Histories. "Coinciding with this year's Local History Month, Historic England has launched a new Local Heritage Hub. With nearly […]
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May 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Philstar: Dingdong Dantes, Aktor launch actors' database. "The League of Filipino Actors (Aktor) recently launched its official website… to serve as a comprehensive database for Filipino performers. In an interview, […]
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May 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Poynter: Two disinformation experts have launched a DIY news outlet. "Indicator, a digital outlet founded by fact-checking and digital investigation veterans Alexios Mantzarlis and Craig Silverman, aims to demystify the […]
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May 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Trend News Agency: Azerbaijan's Central Bank rolls out interactive statistical database to boost data access. "The bank noted that the navigation system is designed in two languages, Azerbaijani and English, […]
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May 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Yale Library: Making science accessible: Matthew Blair '26 is digitizing hundreds of issues of student-run magazine . "Hundreds of issues of ‘The Yale Scientific Magazine,' the oldest collegiate scientific publication […]
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May 21, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI. "Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The software maker […]
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May 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Confederation of Service Charities: Pioneering female veterans of the WRAC continue to mark VE Day's 80th anniversary by sharing their own stories for landmark new project. "As the UK marks […]
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May 20, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TechSpot: Europe prepares trial for Open Web Index to reduce reliance on Google and Bing. "As Google users complain about the worsening quality of search results and GenAI integration, […]
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May 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES STOREP: STOREP Promotes Italian Economists' Legacies: Pasinetti Digital Archive Now Online. "STOREP is pleased to announce the publication of the digital archive of Luigi L. Pasinetti, marking an important step […]
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May 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Wales: It's a wrap!. "On top of the already impressive number of items in the Broadcast Archive, the project has added 5,518 film clips and programmes, and […]
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May 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Memphis Commercial Appeal: Stax Museum unveils digital version of Bob Abrahamian's vast soul music collection . "The vast collection of music and interviews by noted Chicago record collector, disc jockey […]
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May 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Daily Observer (Liberia): Liberian Massacre Sites Documented in New Database . "The Ducor Institute for Social and Economic Research has released a database documenting massacre sites during the civil war, […]
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May 18, 2025
EVENTS Engadget: Everything Google announced at The Android Show. "Google I/O 2025 is still a week out, but Google shared a taste of the updates coming to Android and the larger Android […]
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May 17, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES EU Startups: German search engine Ecosia unveils new climate impact experience for users, shifting away from tree planting. "Berlin-based Ecosia, the green search engine which invests 100% of its […]
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May 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Record: EU launches vulnerability database to tackle cybersecurity threats. "The European Union launched on Tuesday its new vulnerability database to provide aggregated information regarding cybersecurity issues affecting various products […]
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May 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Black Heritage Library and Multicultural Center: Black Heritage Library & Multicultural Center launches public digital archive of historical artifacts. "The Black Heritage Library and Multicultural Center is proud to announce […]
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May 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Broadway World: SFJAZZ Unveils Public Access to Historical Archive. "SFJAZZ has revealed public access to the SFJAZZ Historical Archive, an expansive collection of more than 2,000 recordings from 1983-2012, showcasing […]
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May 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Hindu: Digital archive to connect Bengali writer Samaresh Basu to future generations of readers. "In what is being considered as the first private bilingual archive of its kind for […]
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May 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Asahi Shimbun: New database gives fast search of politicans' spending reports. "A Tokyo-based think tank has created a new online database for the public to search political fund balance reports […]
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May 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: Site has all the classic MacOS themes you could ever want. "The Mac Themes Garden showcases more than 3,000 themes for the classic MacOS. Remember when it was […]
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May 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Harvard Gazette: When graphic design saves lives. "Harvard Library has digitized more than 3,000 posters related to a single major public health crisis: the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The posters come from […]
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May 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of California: California launches new AI-powered chatbot that provides wildfire resources in 70 languages. "The chatbot, ‘Ask CAL FIRE,' provides quick, reliable answers to commonly asked questions using information […]
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May 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Queensland: Database reveals vital ocean links to aid conservation. "Scientists have launched an interactive global map to show the migratory patterns of more than 100 marine species in […]
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May 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Calishat Snaps: Can It Run Doom?. "Everything can run DOOM, but can it run you?" The first entry on this list is an AIR FRYER. TWEAKS AND UPDATES […]
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May 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Brown University: Collaborative project yields new digital archive on hidden history of Indigenous enslavement. "Long a password-protected database used mostly by researchers and people looking for ancestors, Stolen Relations is […]
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May 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Princeton University Library: Princeton University Library Launches the José Donoso Digital Archive. "Princeton University Library (PUL) is proud to announce the launch of the José Donoso Digital Archive, making publicly […]
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May 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Hawaii: UH launches real-time weather dashboard as Hawai?i Mesonet expands statewide. "A new real-time dashboard launched by the University of Hawai?i at Manoa offers public access to live […]
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May 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The US Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project: Miami Citizen, Miami Labor Citizen, and Labor Citizen now Digitized. "Content from the Miami Citizen (1938-1949), Mami Labor Citizen (1949-1956) and the […]
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May 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES INQUEST: INQUEST Launches New Digital Archive. "In June 2022, INQUEST embarked on a journey to document, circulate and reflect on its over 40-year history since it was set up by […]
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May 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES International Council of Museums: ICOM Red List of Greek Cultural Objects at Risk . "ICOM and ICOM Greece, in cooperation with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, are proud to announce […]
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May 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Star Observer: ‘Moments In Time' Series Celebrates Iconic Queer Australian Stories. "Gay bushranger romance, a 1940's homosexual-friendly church, and a trip to a lesbian bar to celebrate a hundredth birthday […]
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May 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Daniel Pietzsch: Feed City . "I made a new thing: a feed reader called FeedCity, available at https://feed.city. The main reason for adding yet another feed reader to the already […]
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May 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Society for the Study of Labour History: Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online. "Work at the Modern Records Centre to catalogue the archive of the Yorkshire Miners […]
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May 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hoover Institution: Tranche of 800 Audio Tapes, Including Conversations with Nazis, Digitized and Available for Research at Hoover . "In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender in […]
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May 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: This site maps Wind Phones across the world. "The website, ‘My Wind Phone,' is a terrific resource that includes a map of all currently existing wind phones—there are […]
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May 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Carnegie Mellon University: Purpose Mode Helps Social Media Users Stay Focused. "Developers of social media applications thrive on user engagement by employing Attention Capture Damaging Patterns (ACDPs) such as infinite […]
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May 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Carnegie Mellon University: Copilot Arena Helps Rank Real-World LLM Coding Abilities. "With so many AI coding assistants out there, it can be hard to keep track of ones that perform […]
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May 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Courtauld: The Courtauld completes major project to digitise the Witt Library. "The Courtauld Institute of Art has completed a major eighteen-month project to open up its internationally renowned Witt […]
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May 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Michigan Live: Michigan library working to rescue thousands of stories from gathering dust. "The Grand Rapids Public Library (GRPL) has launched a free online tool designed to help users explore […]
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May 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Buenos Aires Herald: Argentina releases huge trove of declassified Nazi and dictatorship documents. "Previously unseen documentation of Nazi criminals in Argentina have been released to the general public by the […]
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May 03, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Verge: Google dusts off Google Voice and adds three-way calling. "Google is giving its Google Voice app some much-needed love after leaving it practically untouched for a long […]
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May 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Lifehacker: Google Just Launched an AI-Powered Duolingo Alternative. "There's now a new competitor for Duo's crown, but it certainly isn't a replacement for the AI-averse. It's also far from an […]
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May 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ANI: Tuli Research Centre for India Studies Launches tuliresearchcentre.org . "The Tuli Research Centre for India Studies (T.R.I.S.) proudly announces the launch of tuliresearchcentre.org, a path-breaking digital platform offering free, […]
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May 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found on LinkedIn: Grant Watch. "Grant Watch is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025. We currently are tracking […]
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May 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Deutsche Welle: Vietnam War: How protest music fueled a movement. "[Justin Brummer] is the founding editor and digital archivist of the Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP), a digital […]
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May 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES TVP World: Horrors of Nazis' Lódz Ghetto published in online ‘encyclopedia' 80 years after creation. "History has come full circle with the digitized publication of a ‘lexicon of the Lódz […]
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Apr 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Berliner: Scanning the Horizon: Documenting Berlin's queer spaces. "An initiative titled Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive is capturing the city's queer establishments threefold: on a website, through audio […]
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Apr 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found in my RSS feeds: Dispossessions in the Americas. "Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of the Americas have been dispossessed of their territories, bodies, and cultural heritage for centuries. Our site […]
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Apr 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from The Dispatch (Mississippi): Historian captures state's past, one marker at a time. "Every Saturday for two years, William ‘Brother' Rogers hopped in the car, often with one or […]
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Apr 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Euronews: Listen to some of the world's most iconic sites with Sonic Heritage. "A new project, Sonic Heritage, is here to change the way we experience the world's most iconic […]
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Apr 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Music Universe: Moby relaunches Mobygratis. "Yesterday (Thurs, Apr 24th), internationally renowned musician and activist Moby announced the relaunch of Mobygratis at NeueHouse Hollywood. Powered by Little Walnut Productions, Mobygratis […]
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Apr 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Data Rescue Project: ERICA to the Rescue!. "Several volunteers and partners of the Data Rescue Project (DRP) have been working tirelessly for the last few weeks to back up the […]
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Apr 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Archives: National Archives Releases UAP Records. "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today released new records related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). These records were transferred to the […]
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Apr 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES CODART: New Website Dedicated to Sonian Forest School Painter Ignatius van der Stock (1636-1668). "[The site] is dedicated to the work of Ignatius van der Stock (1636-1668), the fourth major […]
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Apr 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Los Angeles Sentinel: Rare Recordings of L.A. Choirs to Be Part of Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive. "‘The Saviour Home Record Library,' an anthology of Los Angeles gospel choirs in […]
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Apr 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Ateneo de Manila University: Back online: epics.ateneo.edu - A Multimedia Archive of Philippine Epics and Ballads. "Ateneo de Manila University is pleased to announce the relaunch of epics.ateneo.edu, a website […]
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Apr 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from University of Exeter: Monkey database reveals shift towards open science. "MacaqueNet contains social behavioural data from 14 of the world's 24 species of macaque. Established in 2017, MacaqueNet […]
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Apr 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Talk of the Sound: Westchester Unveils Rare Revolutionary War Accounts. "The Westchester County Historical Society has released a digitized collection of 1,100 pages of eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution, […]
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Apr 24, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Journal: AI Use Jumps to 78% Among Businesses As Costs Drop. "Stanford University's latest AI Index Report reveals a significant increase in AI adoption among businesses. Now […]
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Apr 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES VRT News, and translated from Dutch: FelixArchief opens online database with causes of death of 480,000 Antwerp residents between 1820 and 1946. "The FelixArchief opens a digital database with the […]
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Apr 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ScanGov: Government digital experience map. "Project ScanGov now has a map that visualizes how U.S. states fare on government digital experience. Each state on the map is clickable to a […]
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Apr 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found in my RSS feeds: Linktree Finder. It's very bare-bones, just a search form. The search stems, so searching for "painting" will find Nottingham Face Painting, for example. The search […]
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Apr 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Spring 2025. "This past winter, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspapers to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included […]
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