Welcome to the third installment of our media resources series! This post is a sampling of digital projects, useful for research or just general browsing, available in some of Reed’s supported languages.
Arabic
Manar Al-Athar is a collection of digital media of archaeological and historical sites from the Middle East. The images are available to students, teachers, and researchers under a Creative Commons license. The collection is expanding and is searchable through a bilingual English-Arabic website.
Arabic Collections Online is the home of digitized, public domain, Arabic-language texts held at New York University and other institutions and sponsored by NYU Abu Dhabi. Digitized works can be viewed online or downloaded as pdfs. The website is bilingual English-Arabic and also includes links to other digital collections of Arabic-language materials.
Mandarin
This rich online exhibition of Chinese propaganda posters, dating from 1925 to the late twentieth century, mostly come from a private Dutch collection and the International Institute of Social History. You can browse posters by time period or by theme. Posters include key information, translations, and explanations of the context in which posters were produced.
Russian
This is a collection of narratives of the city of St. Petersburg, including extensive information on Andrey Bely’s Petersburg.
Spanish
This online exploration of Cantar de mio cid from the University of Texas Austin provides many different ways to interact with the work: text, manuscript images, audio, and commentary. It’s a good example of how digital formats can provide access to manuscripts and literary works. Watch out! The opening animation includes sound!
The Instituto Cervantes promotes Spanish language and culture throughout the world. The website includes tools for teaching and learning Spanish, including the Catálogo de voces hispánicas, a collection of videos of speakers of Spanish dialects with explanations of differences between dialects. The cultural section provides information about Spanish cultural resources and events around the world.
