LINKS

General Links

ALKA – Millennium Virtual Exhibition of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage http://alka.mch.mii.lt

COINE (Cultural Objects in Networked Environments). This project examines cultural heritages and presents them in a networked environment.  The second newsletter of the project http://www.uoc.edu/in3/coine/eng/newsletter/issue2.html
http://www.digicult.info/downloads/dc_info_issue6_december_20031.pdf

DigiCULT.Info – This electronic magazine discusses problems of digital storage and dissemination, documentation and information society development.  http://www.digicult.info/. Publications are available for download, for example: Download DigiCULT Thematic Issue 5 (3,5 MB)

EEBO - Early English Books Online, http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home (one of the biggest virtual libraries containing over 500,000 items and covering the period from 1475 to 1700)

Gutenberg Digital http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm

 LBP – Portal of Lithuanian communities in the world http://www.lithuanet.com/

PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) – Internet portal of the National Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/.

RDN (The Resource Discovery Network) – a meta-portal with links to digital storage portals all over the world. http://www.rdn.ac.uk

Registers of cultural properties. The website of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Center http://www.paveldas.lt

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam http://rijksmuseum.nl .This website provides access to the multimedia database of the museum’s collection of valuable items stored in digital form and offers a virtual tour of more than 150 exhibition halls.

Scientific information search engine http://www.scirus.com

SCRAN
(Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network) – a Scottish digital archive http://www.scran.ac.uk/ This database contains over 300,000 pictures from museums, galleries, and archives, audio and video recordings, and learning resources.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s. Dynamic generation of timelines, chronologies, maps, and other contextualization. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

Archeology

Archaeological Research Institute, a virtual library, http://archnet.asu.edu/

Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe http://odur.let.rug.nl/arge/

Archaeology Data Service (the University of York) http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/

Database of cave paintings in European countries http://europreart.net/

Digital Archaeology website http://www.online-archaeology.com/

Digital Archaeology: Virtual reconstruction, visualization, simulation and 3d-animation on a highly professional level for museums, exhibitions, video and TV-broadcasting. http://www.digital-archaeology.com/

Historic Archaeological Research http://www.har-indy.com/Links.html

Website of the Department of Cultural Heritage Protection http://heritage.lt (access to the archive of the State Archaeological Commission)

Website of the Institute of Prehistory of the University of Poznan http://archeo.amu.edu.pl/resoucesp.htm

Y-STR Haplotype Reference Database (one of the databases for genetics)
http://www.ystr.org

Ethnology

American Ethnological Society Resources: www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/aes/resources.html

EASA - European Association of Social Anthropologists Visual Anthropology Network: http://www.iwf.de/easa/library/library.htm

Ethnographic Studies Internet Resources Page – The Library of Congress Collection of Resources in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, and Folk Life http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html

Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) www.yale.edu/hraf
This website contains two electronic databases:
the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography and the eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.

Latvieđu tautas ticçjumi – a collection of 36,790 Latvian folk beliefs published by P. Đmits in 1940-1941 in four volumes in Riga: www.ailab.lv/ticejumi.htm

SIEF – Société Internationale d’Etnologie et de Folklore: http://www.siefhome.org/

The Ur-List: Web Resources for Visual Anthropology: http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/index.html

History

Center of History. This website is useful for conducting searches for historical information. http://www.istorija.net/centras/index.htm

Herder Institute, one of Germany's principal institutions for historical research on Eastern and Central Europe http://www.herder-institut.de/

Internet Library of Belarusian History – covering the period of Kievan Rus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - http://www.starbel.narod.ru

Lithuanian Institute of History website www.istorija.lt containing links to other historical information resources.

Orbis Latinus – a compendium of place names in Latin http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html

The Bible in many languages of the world – http://www.biblegateway.com/

The Catholic Encyclopaedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

 

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