Where to upload
Our recommended host is the Internet Archive. Uploads are free, the metadata fields map cleanly onto our subject and grade-level classifiers, and the platform exposes a stable JSON metadata API that powers our nightly refresh. Choose Presentations as the media type, attach a permissive Creative Commons license, and fill in the subject tags carefully — those tags drive how your deck is classified on Slide Collection.
Three small things that make a big difference
- Write a real description. One paragraph explaining what the deck covers, who it's for, and what level of background it assumes. This becomes the first thing future students see on your detail page.
- Use specific subject tags. "Education" is too broad to be useful. "Cell biology", "AP US history", "introductory linear algebra" — these classify cleanly and surface in search.
- Include the grade band in the title or description. "for high-school physics" or "graduate seminar reading" are the kinds of cues our classifier picks up reliably.
What we do with the metadata
On each catalogue refresh, our seeder re-queries the upstream archive, deduplicates against the existing catalogue, classifies new decks against our subject and grade-level taxonomies, and writes the results to disk. The PHP front-end then reads from those files at request time. There is no queue, no editorial review, and no human gatekeeper — if your deck is openly licensed and lives at a stable URL on a supported archive, it will appear here on the next refresh.
What we don't accept
We don't index decks behind paywalls, decks without a clear license, or decks hosted only on file-sharing services that don't expose stable URLs. We also avoid commercial templates marketplaces, since the goal here is study material, not slide-design product.
Reporting a problem
If you find a deck on Slide Collection that misrepresents its source, lacks a clear license, or shouldn't be indexed for some other reason, the right place to act is upstream — request takedown or correction at the original archive, and the change will propagate to Slide Collection on the next refresh.