Tag Archives: archives
Building a Digital Archive
Digital Archives are easier to create than ever before, utilizing content management systems such as Omeka, Drupal, Collective Access or even WordPress, libraries and institutions can share and organize their collections through the web. Digital archives can turn 300 years of chowder recipes into a resource that historians can utilize to analyze regional cuisines, or a media preservation […]
Civil War Data 150: Unfinished Dreams
Civil War Data 150 headed by Jon Voss, initially began as a partnership between The Archives of Michigan, The Internet Archive and Freebase. Later, the project added two additional partners: The University of Richmond and HistoryPin – Voss’s newest project. Civil War Data 150 (CWD150) was created to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the American Civil […]
Tag! You’re it!
The Brooklyn Museum and Dartmouth University have both developed their own social metadata ‘tagging’ games for students and the general public play with. The mission of these two different games is to increase the metadata – or tags – in each of the institutions’ collections and also to create keywords by their users, in the […]
