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Tale of Genji, Armenia Cultural Heritage, Investigative Journalism, More: Sunday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 20, 2025

NEW RESOURCES Popular Science: College students digitized 795 poems from the world’s oldest novel. “Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds of medieval Japanese poems. But the compendium doesn’t draw from an array of authors. Instead, a single woman penned all the 11th century poems as part of a larger book,…

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Crowdsourced Art Scholarship, cURL, WordPress, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, July 20, 2025

NEW RESOURCES CODART: New Online Forum for Discussion and Identification of Drawings in Public Collections. “The new Trois Crayons Museum Forum aims to facilitate the discussion and identification of premodern drawings in public collections. The forum is free-to-use and designed to foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas among museum curators, scholars, art dealers and the wider…

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NCAA Championships, Iran Museums, NotebookLM, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 19, 2025

NEW RESOURCES NCAA: New NCAA historical database provides wealth of information on championships . “The NCAA has released a historical championships dashboard, a first-of-its-kind resource that includes details on the winners of every NCAA championship. This interactive dashboard, displayed across several tabs, provides a comprehensive visual catalog of championship sports, individual titles and…

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WWII American Internment Camps, Michigan Lake Data, YouTube, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, July 19, 2025

NEW RESOURCES AsAmNews: Denshō and Internet Archive to launch new collection next week. “On Wednesday, July 23, at noon (PST), Denshō and the Internet Archive will launch a new online collection of over 100 films that document the forced removal and incarceration of the Japanese Americans during World War II.” Detroit Free Press: Decades of Michigan lake data, hidden in filing cabinets, digitized…

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FDA Response Letters, Blaugust, Google, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 18, 2025

NEW RESOURCES FDA: FDA Embraces Radical Transparency by Publishing Complete Response Letters. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today published more than 200 decision letters, known as complete response letters (CRLs). The CRLs were issued in response to applications submitted to the FDA for approval of drugs or biological products between 2020 and 2024, marking a significant step in…

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Seek.Ninja, YouTube, Google, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, July 18, 2025

NEW RESOURCES Found via Calishat Snaps: Seek.Ninja. From the About page: “Seek Ninja exists for people who want the power of a modern search engine without leaving a trail. From the first line of code we chose a simple rule: if a byte of data isn’t essential to answering your query, we don’t collect it…. Starting with publicly available Common Crawl data, we continuously re-crawl, de-dupe and…

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Catholic Universe Bulletin, Balinese Mask Models, Emojitracker, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, July 17, 2025

NEW RESOURCES Catholic Diocese of Cleveland: Diocesan archives announces Catholic Universe Bulletin is available digitally. “Emily Ahlin, diocesan archivist, said a nearly three-year project to digitize the earliest issues of [Catholic Universe Bulletin] and to make them available to the public, just concluded its first phase. There is no charge or paywall – all issues can be viewed for free. It…

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Exploring Endangered Languages, Kyrgyzstan Cultural Heritage, Texas Flood Misinformation, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 16, 2025

TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: Explore the world around you in 30 endangered languages with Google AI. “First launched in 2021, Woolaroo is an AI experiment from Google Arts & Culture that lets you snap a photo and learn the words for your surroundings in 30 endangered languages…. This year, we’re including 10 new languages from Africa, plus new languages from Brazil, Mexico, Turkey and…

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Institute of Governmental Studies Library, National Gallery of Art, Internet Archive, More: Wednesday ResearchBuzz, July 16, 2025

NEW RESOURCES Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley: 5000th item digitized!. “The Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL) at UC Berkeley has reached a remarkable achievement: more than 5,000 local government documents from across California have been digitized and made freely accessible to the public! Launched in the summer of 2024, the project has digitized a sizable portion of…

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Food Recall Tool, Rock School Radio, LumiRead, More: Tuesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 15, 2025

NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: College of Public Health Student Creates Website to Monitor Food Recalls. “[Wilberforce] Twinamatsiko, who’s in the college’s Health Systems and Services Research doctoral program, is spearheading a group that has created a free website, Food Recall Tool. The website makes food recalls made by the United States Food and Drug Association…

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Arabic Manuscripts, Google, Twitter, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, July 15, 2025

NEW RESOURCES Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia: Beta Version of the New Daiber Collection Database Released. “The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at The University of Tokyo is pleased to announce the release of the beta version (public test version) of the new Daiber Collection database, which provides access to approximately 520 Arabic-script manuscripts held by the institute.…

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Big Data Rescue, Philadelphia Recycling, BLACKPINK, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 14, 2025

NEW RESOURCES NextGov: Inside efforts to capture federal data after ‘the big takedown’. “[Denice] Ross, who’s now a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, is one of the people behind America’s Data Index, an attempt to get a better view of changes across the government data ecosystem.” WHYY: New online resource aims to make recycling more accessible. This resource focuses on…

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CivicRadius Search, Arkansas Child Care, Gmail, More: Monday ResearchBuzz, July 14, 2025

NEW RESOURCES Calishat: CivicRadius Search: Find Gov Web Sites On a Map And Search Them Via Google. “Recently I learned (via experimenting and mucking around) how to use APIs to enhance datasets. After that I grabbed CISA’s official list of .gov sites from GitHub and used the Nominatim API to add a lat/long to each listing. That enhanced dataset is the heart of CivicRadius Search, a new way to…

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Africa Plants, Grok, TikTok, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, July 13, 2025

NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from The Conversation: Africa’s plants: a database project has recorded 65,000 species – and is still growing . “The database was developed by the Geneva Botanical Garden in Switzerland – involved for more than 60 years in research and conservation projects in Africa – in collaboration with the South African National Biodiversity Institute. It’s an online list of all…

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LEGO and SQL, Temporary Obsessions Feed Reader, AI in Business, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, July 12, 2025

NEW RESOURCES ERIC: Using LEGO® Brick Data to Teach SQL and Relational Database Concepts. “This paper introduces the LEGO® Database, a large natural dataset that can be used to teach Structured Query Language (SQL) and relational database concepts. This dataset is well-suited for introductory and advanced database assignments and end-of-semester group projects. The data is freely available from…

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Michigan Postcards, YouTube, Bluesky, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, July 11, 2025

NEW RESOURCES University of Michigan: ‘The postcard craze’ of historic Michigan: More than 60K postcards digitized at U-M Clements Library . “The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan has recently made available a digital database of real photo postcards from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography. The 66,470 postcards feature locations from every corner of…

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Hawaii Public Art, King's Theatre Scotland, Twitter, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, July 11, 2025

NEW RESOURCES Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts: SFCA announces new Art in Public Places Collection online database. “The SFCA Art in Public Places Collection online database can be searched by artist, medium, artwork title, and more! Information includes current location. Go to sfca.hawaii.gov/app-art to get started.” Capital Theatres: Celebrating our history with the launch of The…