Thursday, July 8, 2010
"We've got a scanner, now what..."
I've bumped into a few small historical associations and museums recently who have decided to digitize their collections. In several cases, these "digitization projects" don't amount to more than buying a scanner, making scads of jpegs, and saving it all locally. How can a small history organization with limited funds do a better job of making collections accessible? Any suggestions for guides, resources, or etc. that I can point these folks to? Also, what are your favorite examples of small local history institutions doing big things with digital collections?
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Temple University Libraries uses ContentDM, a commonly used but proprietary and somewhat expensive content management system. There was a deal going for a little while where institutions could get a free license if they contribute to Access PA.
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Collective Access is open source. I have yet to use it but am intrigued by it. It is the framework they built the PhilaPlace site on.
http://www.collectiveaccess.org/
John, have you used Omeka (http://omeka.org/)? Any one else? Reactions?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I haven't used it, just heard a little about it. Will try and check it out.
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