awesome-digital-collections
github.com/polm/awesome-digital-collections ↗Publicly accessible digital collections.
Use this list with your AI agent
Add the Context Awesome MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client, then ask:
"Show me resources resources from awesome-digital-collections"
Installation instructions →What's inside
Resources
- Bibliothèques spécialisées de la Ville de Paris - Page d'accueil
Page d'accueil
- British Library Labs Digital Collections
- British Museum - Online research catalogues
Online research catalogues
- Cambridge Digital Library
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Clear Open Access policy, lots of paintings and sculptures.
- Cooper Hewitt
Beautifully photographed collection and excellent API. Only some items (mostly 2D) are public domain.
Japanese
- Bunka Gakuen Fashion Database
Copyrighted, collections of a Japanese Fashion University.
- National Diet Library
Materials here are only marked public domain after being proven so or special permission from the Culture Minister. Materials that are probably public domain but not proven to be so yet are often available digitally but only on-site.
- 大学史資料センター 写真データベース
Waseda University photo database.
- 慶應義塾写真データベース - 検索条件入力
Keio University photo database. Has a vague copyright assertion, though most images should be public domain.
- 日本語史研究資料 国立国語研究所蔵
Historical textual resources from NINJAL.
Showing a sample of 29 resources. View the full list on GitHub →