Types of Content

Guides

The guide tools that provide audiences with an expert-curated collection of content that provides a more intensive or big-picture education on a particular topic.

Collaborative Research and Mainframes

The Observatory’s ongoing Collaborative Research projects, edited by a scholarly community.

Collaborative Research: an open-ended investigatory tool that allows multiple contributors to explore a topic, deciding what to share with the public through a peer research and editorial oversight process. Interested audiences can access the prepublication draft text and deliberations. Audiences have the option of supporting the Observatory’s Collaborative Research through a growing range of donation tools, including Crowdfunding.

Contributors can also use this tool to develop Mainframes, knowledge-gathering projects that can be largely expanded on by future scholars and researchers who want to expand or pursue a creator’s initial information project. The Mainframe publishing tool allows for future researchers to expand the scope of inquiry that the original author began, while holding to the initial line of inquiry and methods of communication.

Classics

The Observatory makes well-known works by historians, journalists, and researchers from the past accessible through its convenient long-form text reading interface.

Area Media and Events Calendars

Media guide and events calendar for the Observatory’s Areas that help audiences track conferences, presentations, podcasts, and other listings.