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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Hundreds of very well archived treaties between the United States and Native Americans have been put onto this database developed by Yale.
The British Museum: Compass
An online database developed by the British Museum featuring around 5,000 objects. From mummies to the ancient Greeks you can find a lot here. Take a tour, search the database, or look at objects of the month!
VoiceThread
A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish.
The World Bird Database
An extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 1.4 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more.
All but Forgotten Oldies
A searchable database of sound clips for over 4000 songs from 1960-1975 which can be browsed both by performing artist and by song title. Over 1200 bands and artists are featured.
Tropical Plant Database
The extensive Tropical Plant Database lists plants by Common name, Botanical name, Ethnic uses, and Action/disorder. Each plant has an illustration and information about family, genus, species, common names, plant description, and more.
What is a Database
A thorough explanation of how the database has evolved over the years and how it impacts us today.
Bonus Links
Newspaper Browser
Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Robotics: Seeing, Thinking, Acting
Explore the history and working of robots and the ethics behind them, check out "robot art," or even interactively command a remotely operated vehicle.
Open Video Project
Great website where there are literally thousands of videos from documentaries to historical. You can search for keywords or you can browse through genres.
StarLogo Website
StarLogo TNG is modelling and simulation software that can be freely downloaded from MIT. Using StarLogo students can create rich 3D worlds without the programming barriers that many other software environments have. The MIT website contains tutorials for using StarLogo, and a small bank of lesson resources for Game Programming, Secondary School Maths activities and an epidemic simulation.
Scivee TV
SciVee, the so-called YouTube for science, features research papers and accompanying video in which authors can demonstrate and explain their work in simple terms that everyone can understand. The new video-sharing site, created by and for scientists, presents a platform where researchers and lecturers can produce multimedia presentations of their work.