Before Google and Wikipedia, sites like the Humanities HUB pointed out to the web with a curated, Yahoo-style directories. It was itself inspired by my dissertation supervisor at the time, Dan Harries, and his CineMedia site. The model does not really work any more. Google can index the web faster than individuals can find the "best" selections but the Web also is not the same as it once was and genuine, dedicated subject specific sites are now rare gems in amongst all the noise.
This version of the HUB does something narrower and is more honest about what a small site can offer. For each relevant classification code relating broadly to humanities, social science or the arts, a Python robot periodically picks a current academic paper, an image/like from Europeana and DPLA, one book from the Directory of Open Access Books, one wikidata entry and one wikiepedia entry to represent it, replacing the previous pick each time it runs and keeping every past pick on file. As the robot improves the past picks may also start to look a bit "off-topic". You can browse down the classification tree, or search across it.
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