Dance in Video, Volumes I and II provides 900 hours of video content covering the full scope of 20th and 21st century dance. The collection includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from the most influential performers and companies, with the selections covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
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DASI seeks to gather all known pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphic material into a comprehensive online database, with the aim to make available to specialists and to the broader public a wide array of documents often underestimated because of their difficulty of access.
By means of a digitization process through a hybrid data entry/xml system, DASI gives access at present to more than 8,400 Ancient South Arabian inscriptions and 600 more anepigraphic objects, for the most part recorded by the University of Pisa team under the direction of Alessandra Avanzini. Thanks to the collaboration with other major European centres for the study of the Arabian Peninsula, also parts of the corpora of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions (supervision by Mr. M.C.A. Macdonald, University of Oxford), Nabataean inscriptions (supervision by Dr. Laila Nehmé, UMR 8167, CNRS-Paris) and other Aramaic inscriptions (soon available, under the supervision by Dr. Maria Gorea, Université de Paris VIII) have been digitized.
DASI project was funded by the European Community within the Seventh Framework Programme “Ideas”, through an ERC – Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Alessandra Avanzini at the University of Pisa (2011-2016). The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, additional participant of the project, was responsible for the technical development of the archive, which is now maintained at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome.
As part of its work to open its data to wider use, the British Library makes copies of some of its datasets available for research and creative purposes.
Indexes data studies and datasets from a wide range of international data repositories across the humanities, social sciences and sciences and connects them with the literature to track data citation. Includes access to the Science (1993-present) and Social Sciences & Humanities (1993-present) editions.
DataCite is a non-profit organisation that provides persistent identifiers for research outputs, particularly data. Having an identifier for a dataset means it is more discoverable, and allows others to cite it appropriately. Many organisations use DataCite to register other unpublished works, including working papers. DataCite provides a search interface for the work registered in its database, which is connected to over 2000 repositories worldwide.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project allows users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 has 120,000+ pages of original documents relating to Gender Studies. Images are sourced from British and European libraries and archives, including the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the British Library.
BIS is the department for economic growth. The department invests in skills and education to promote trade, boost innovation and help people to start and grow a business. BIS also protects consumers and reduces the impact of regulation.
Provides international patent abstracts written by professionals. Includes facilities for searching by 'owning company', forward and backward citation and some status information. Coverage: 1963 to date depending on subject.
Annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc. 1973-
This database provided by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) allows you to search for designs registered in an increasing number of EU countries.
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1845-1914), the Fourth Earl of Minto, was involved in Canadian governance in various roles between 1883 and 1905. This collection is drawn from his personal papers and offers a detailed account of the changing shape of governance and development in one of Britain's most important colonies. The files include material relating to rebellions by French-Canadians and indigenous peoples, the recruitment of Canadian troops for Britain's imperial wars, and questions of trade between Canada and the rest of the world.
The aim of this project is to provide digital versions of at least one multilingual dictionary for each of the literary languages of South Asia, and a monolingual dictionary for each of the more frequently taught languages.
Digital Education Research Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education.
The Institute of Education’s UK Digital Education Repository Archive (DERA) is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children and families.
The archive includes thousands of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. foreign policy decisions. There are more than 50 complete collections each offering specialised insight. Coverage includes the Iran-Contra Affair, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the War on Terror and Donald Rumsfeld's Snowflakes.
