Item description
A screenshot of a webpage’s directory with black text and a white background. At the top left corner is the name of the website, “COVID-19 signage archive”; and at the top right are links to different sections of the website, titled “about”, “map”, “tags”, and “upload”. In the far right corner is a search bar. This section is separated by a bar with the word “browse” underneath it in the center. Four squares fill the page with different information: an “all signs” link which displays four random signs, “by location” which gives 10 sample locations across the world, “by date or text” which lists keywords, and “by tag” which provides filters to see specific signs. Underneath the four boxes is a link that reads “or, submit a sign you’ve seen!”.
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COVID-19 Signage Archive 1
Eli Fessler
The COVID-19 Signage Archive, located at https://covid-signage.net/, aims to preserve and invite exploration of the worldwide, physical, pandemic-related messaging that has come into existence beginning in early 2020. The project seeks to archive these ephemera, and to help document the linguistic landscapes of shared concepts such as social/physical distancing, mask-wearing, and hand washing – while simultaneously serving as an accessible dataset/corpus available for linguistic and sociological analysis.
