Resources for the Annotator

Overview

The following helpful links will assist annotators in finding information on the Internet. These resources should help with transcription queries.

E n g i n e s
 
Collaborative filtering, huge database. Excellent. Natural language search engine.
Large database, good results.  Search engine, vertical engines, directory.
     
Web, Usenet. Speedy. Large database. Search engine from Microsoft.
Web, Usenet.  Directory. Large database. Search engine, includes pages of links.
Web, Usenet, news, maps, directory, yellow pages, company profiles. Metasearch tool. Site previews.
Search and directory, sports, news, weather, reviews. Deep Web metasearch tool.
Search and pictures, sound, news, software, rated sites. Performs metasearching on web, Usenet, FTP.
Web search and directory. Another metasearch tool.
Search engine with Google-style ranking. Metasearch tool for 130+ databases.
Search engine for university sites. Premier metasearch tool. Excellent.

 D i r e c t o r i e s
 
Most popular directory, image searches. Nicely set up directory from Reader's Digest.
Google rankings applied to Open Directory. Very Good.  
Very nice directory plus search. Directory created by volunteer editors.
Directory of expert guides, including Web searching. Excellent, easy to use directory.
Very nice directory, dozens of categories  Directory of sites by popularity. Also top 99 search engines.
Directory plus links to search engines. Shopping, information, news.
Directory plus search. Directory by educational subject, with annotated entries.
Really cool graphic directory with good reference links. Directory of education related sites.
100 most popular web sites in many categories, including newspapers. Engine with links to companies and government pages.
Directory. Good sections on Library and Education plus search.

 R e f e r e n c e
 
Encyclopedia Britannica & Internet Guide. Search or read several English and other versions of the Bible.
17,000 short articles (Concise Columbia Encyclopedia). Almanacs, Encyclopedia, Dictionary.
Concise version of Microsoft's Encarta. Reference and Library site.
Database of articles and reference materials. 20,000 biographies.
Another encyclopedia. Searchable book of quotations.
Excellent dictionary, multiple sources. More reference works. Good.
Links to facts, encyclopedias, dictionaries, news, much more. Dictionary of Computer Terms.
A global encyclopedia.  Dictionaries and Thesauruses
Several hundred searchable dictionaries. The meanings of acronyms.
Extensive index of scholarly Internet resources. Wonderful list of specific links.
A list of lists, or directory of directories. Science sites.
Great books searchable by keyword. Search archived Web content.
Articles on philosophical topics. Community written encyclopedia.

 D a t a b a s e s
The Invisible Web: Databases not accessible to ordinary search engines.
 
10,000 databases, archives, and search engines. Metasearch database categories plus other databases.
Powered by Intelliseek's InvisibleWeb, another flavor. Metasearch engine and 1500 specialty search engines.
   Search hundreds of journals.
Hundreds of databases by category. Full text magazine articles.
Journals & other free academic content. Search engine for the invisible Web.
Companion site to Invisible Web book. Full text of more than 18,000 books.

 G r a p h i c s
 
Search engine for photographs and graphics.  
Image search from Google. Marine Art Information Center. Paintings, photographs, and more.
Art, photography, maps, and more. More than 100,000 art images.
 
Thousands of art images.
  Many excellent art works.
Search engine for graphics. The U. S. National Gallery of Art.
Links to all the arts, including museums. Links to hundreds of online maps from library at U Texas.
National Gallery of London. Encyclopedia of art and artworks.

S p e c i a l t y
 
Search discussion groups. Directory and search for health and medicine.
Lists of mailing lists, newsgroups, ftp sites. Search for retailers by category.
Directory of mailing lists, by category or search. Search for business info by company or industry.
Directory of people, business, government, cities, more. Ask real people questions.
Directories by AT&T of people, businesses, toll-free, more. Reference, news, diagnosis and other health info.
Find businesses, get maps and directions. Legal resources.
U. S. National Library of Medicine, Grateful Med. Yellow pages from everywhere.

P e r i o d i c a l s
 
Links to 100,000 newspapers worldwide. Abstracts and some full text of 200+ journals.
Links to all media. News and archives.
News, links to 2,000 magazines, magazine digest. Keeps an eye on the news media.
News, book reviews. News and archives.

G o v e r n m e n t
 
Northern Light's government document search engine. Legislative information.
Gateway to many federal government sites. The U. S. Census Bureau.
Government info gateway. Gateway to statistics from many government agencies.
Links and search for U.S. federal, state, & local government. Foreign too. Hundreds of consumer information items.
Links to many government sites. Library of Congress American Memory.
Lots of government links.    

B o o k s
 
Includes reviews of many titles. Used, new, hard-to-find, and out of print books.
Lots of books. Books, interviews.
Lots of Christian books. All kinds of book information.
Search for the best price from many bookstores at once. Book information, reviews, sites with reviews.
Books, bargain books (remainders). ACQWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web.
The University of California Library catalog. Books and other items.
Book shopping bot. Compare prices.

M e d i a
 
Internet Movie Database with reviews.
Online TV listings.
Radio and TV programming. Also Web directory.

N e w s
 
General News.
Cable channel news site.
Cable channel news site.
Cable channel news site.
Cable channel news site.
Cable channel news site.
News source, search engine, and gateway to news sites.
News in many categories.
 
Emphasis on technical and computer news.
Media watchdog organization.
Links to 15,000 newspapers, TV stations, other news sources.
General news.

O t h e r
 
Rates of exchange for foreign currency
Atlas and road maps
Driving directions
Guide to word pronunciations
Dictionary of slang, webspeak, made up words, and colloquialisms
List of dictionaries for slang, jargon, argot, etc.


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