\[ **BT: [[knowledge#archives]]** ] --- # digital archives and libraries ## ↬ external resources ### digital archives | Collection | Focus | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [HathiTrust](https://www.hathitrust.org/) | General/broad range of texts and images | | [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) | Genearal/broad range of texts and images | | [Wikisource](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page) | General/broad range of texts | | [World History Commons](https://worldhistorycommons.org/) | **History texts**, with a focus on annotated primary sources and teaching guides | | [Chinese Text Project](https://ctext.org/) | **Chinese texts** | | [Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts](https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/texts.html) | Mostly **Chinese texts**, with a focus on the Silk Road | | [Asia for Educators (Columbia University)](https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/) | **Chinese history**, culture and art; pedagogical focus | | [Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) | **Greco-Roman texts**; minor Arabic, Germanic, Renaissance, and 19th-century American texts | | [The Anarchist Library](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index) | **Politics**, Anarchism | | [Chrestomathy of Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Written Records](https://germanic.ge/en/ang/) | **Anglo-Saxon** and **Gothic** texts | | [Multilingual Folk Tale Database](http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=home) | **Folk tales, fairy tales** | | [D. L. Ashliman’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts](https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html) | **Folk tales, folklore, mythology** | | [The Gold Scales](http://oaks.nvg.org/ind-3.html) | **Fairy tales, mythology, proverbs, nursey rhymes**, etc | ### digital image libraries | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Openverse](https://openverse.org/) | An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use. (==All Openverse content is under a [Creative Commons license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/) or is in the public domain.==) | | [Wellcome Collection](https://wellcomecollection.org/collections)<br> | Free to use. Everything I’ve looked at so far has been licenced under the Public Domain Mark. | | <br>[Cleveland Museum of Art](https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search) | Lots of antiquities etc under the Public Domain Mark. Copyright is either way very clearly labelled, and downloading is made easy. | | [Saxifraga Gallery: Free Nature Images](http://www.freenatureimages.eu/) | Free stock photos of animals, plants and landscapes. All images are available on the website at a resolution of 1200 pixels. Bias towards European results. English searches work well, but I have noticed it’s often also worth trying in German. Plants seem searchable by their searched by their binominal names. | **Examples of fan-made archives:** - [Kpop music archive](https://kpopmusicarchive.tumblr.com/)