Digital Media
(Art/Audio/Images/Maps/Video)
Art | Audio/Video | Images/Photos | Maps
Many of the collections listed below are part of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center (DMC).
Art
- Art and Architecture Database, (OhioLINK accessible images)
- Art and Architecture Database (World Accessible Images)
- Art and Architecture Images from the University of Cincinnati
- The ART Collection
- Art Images from the Akron Art Museum
- ARTstor
- Represents a collection or art images as well as historical images.
- Greek and Latin Inscriptions
- A collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of Greek and Latin inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia
- Mayan Archaeology
- Saskia Art History Images
- WPA Prints by Cleveland Artists from Case Western Reserve University's Special Collections
Audio/Video
- Amistad Digital Resource: Civil Rights Era
- Developed by Columbia University
- Arab Culture and Civilization
- Materials organized thematically into ten modules containing texts, video clips and audio files. Sponsored by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE).
- Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics Recorded Sounds
- Audio clips of songbirds
- Digital Video Collection
- Full-length educational videos on many topics; from Films for the Humanities & Sciences and other major producers. Requires RealPlayer
- FolkStreams
- "The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary films about American folk or roots culture." These are independent films.
- Foreign Language Videos
- A collection of foreign language video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more.
- Internet Archive
- Over 30,000 moving images and 73,000 audio recordings.
- Kennedy Center Performing Arts Series
- Kent State Shootings--Oral Histories
- Oral histories of the May 4, 1970 shootings of Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University.
- NAXOS Music Library
- open vault WGBH Media Library and Archive
- Physics Demonstrations
- Reproduction Physiology Animations from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- U.S. National Archvives and Records Administration (NARA) video via Google Video
- Continually expanding but currently contains NASA videos, United Newsreels, and Dept. of Interior videos
Images/Photos--Historic & Archival Collections
- Amistad Digital Resource: Civil Rights Era
- Developed by Columbia University
- AP Images
- A collection of pictures, graphics, text, and audio from the Associated Press.
- ARTstor
- Includes images of an historical nature.
- Civil Rights Digital Library
- Part of the Digital Library of Georgia and the Galileo Initiative
- Dolphin Embryo Images from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
- Forestry Images from Ohio State University
- Geology Images from Oberlin College
- Greek and Latin Inscriptions
- A collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of Greek and Latin inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia.
- Historic Maps of Akron and Summit County, Ohio
- images.MD
- Lake Erie's Yesterdays
- Photos of the Erie Islands and Lake Erie's western basin, from the Charles E. Frohman Collection in the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.
- LexisNexis Primary Sources in African American History
- LexisNexis Primary Sources in American Women's History
- Life Magazine Photo Archive (via Google)
- Mayan Archaeology
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- E. W. Scripps Papers, 1868-1926
- Letters and photos from the Scripps archive at Ohio University.
- Wright Brothers Collection
- Photos documenting the invention of the airplane and the lives of the Wright family.
Maps
- Historic Maps of Akron and Summit County, Ohio
- LANDSAT 7 Satellite Image Server (Satellite images of Ohio, taken every 16 days)
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps--Ohio (1867-1970) (Street plans of Ohio communities, produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867-1970)
