Originally posted on 2013-08-27 Reviewed by Suzanne Maggard, University of Cincinnati [PDF Full Text] Viewshare is a free, open source application developed and maintained by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress (NDIIPP). The purpose of Viewshare is to enable users to enhance their digital collections by creating “unique,” … Continue reading Viewshare: Interfaces to Our Heritage
Category: 2013
Gallica: Digital Library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Originally posted 2013-08-01 http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN Accessed 21 May 2013. Reviewed by Timothy R. Borbely, Wayne State University [PDF Full Text] This review goes beyond U.S. borders and focuses on Gallica, the digital library for the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, France, which debuted on-line in 1997. The digital library’s mission is to preserve French heritage and to … Continue reading Gallica: Digital Library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Hurricane Sandy: Record, Remember, Rebuild
Originally posted on 2013-07-11 http://www.historypin.com/sandy Accessed 02 June 2013 Reviewed by Alexandra Orchard, Service Employees International Archivist (SEIU), Wayne State University [PDF Full Text] Since the 2012 Society of American Archivists annual meeting, Reviews Portal pieces have engaged with and used three notions from Jon Voss’ plenary speech to evaluate archival resources and tools. Highlighting … Continue reading Hurricane Sandy: Record, Remember, Rebuild
Omeka
Originally published 2013-05-15 http://omeka.org Accessed 8 May 2013. Reviewed by Elizabeth Pepper [PDF Full Text] Omeka is an open-source publishing platform that can be used by archivists to create and manage digital collections. It is funded by various private foundations, allowing free use of the platform, however, there are fairly sophisticated system requirements for the … Continue reading Omeka
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Originally posted on 2013-05-01 http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/docs/copyrightterm.pdf Accessed 10 March 2013. Reviewed by David M. Brown, Ed.D., MLIS(c), MCHES; MLIS Student Wayne State University; Assistant Professor of Public Health Jackson State University [PDF Full Text] In the ever-changing world of copyright and public domain, the Cornell University Copyright Information Center provides a resource to assist scholars, researchers … Continue reading Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Zotero
Originally posted 2013-04-15 http://www.zotero.org/ Accessed 14 March 2013 Reviewed by Amy Nicole Roberson, Trinity University [PDF Full Text] Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Zotero is a free browser-based tool designed to collect, organize, cite, share, and sync research materials. This review evaluates Zotero using the three notions … Continue reading Zotero
Our Digital World
Originally posted 2013-04-01 http://ourdigitalworld.org Accessed 18 March 2013 Reviewed by Elizabeth Pepper [PDF Full Text] Our Digital World (ODW) is a not-for-profit organization, based in Ontario, Canada. It provides support for libraries, universities and other organizations that maintain digital content for the public. The ODW website contains numerous links to helpful websites that supply information … Continue reading Our Digital World
Grateful Dead Archive Online
Originally posted 2013-03-01 http://www.gdao.org Accessed 31 December 2012. Reviewed by Lori Birrell, University of Rochester [PDF Full Text] Community building and scholarly rigor are the core strengths of the Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO), created by the University of California Santa Cruz. GDAO characterizes itself as a socially constructed network that combines a physical archival … Continue reading Grateful Dead Archive Online
DIY History
Originally posted: 2013-02-15 Reviewed by Eric Wiley [PDF Full Text] The DIY History project at University of Iowa[i] may be evaluated against the intellectual framework proposed in John Voss’ plenary address[ii] at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. Voss' framework consists of asking how the resource tells the story between documents … Continue reading DIY History
Content, Context, and Capacity: A Collaborative Large-Scale Digitization Project on the Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina
Date posted: 2013-02-01 http://www2.trln.org/ccc/ Accessed 23 January, 2013. Reviewed by Alexandra A. A. Orchard, SEIU Archivist, Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University [PDF Full Text] Large-scale digitization motivates the Triangle Research Libraries Networks’ (TRLN) Content, Context, and Capacity (CCC) project. The project’s home page expresses two goals. First, CCC … Continue reading Content, Context, and Capacity: A Collaborative Large-Scale Digitization Project on the Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina
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