Originally posted on 2015-12-09 http://mallhistory.org/ Reviewed by Michael Karabinos, PhD graduate from Leiden University (the Netherlands) in Archival Science [PDF Full Text] Reviewing Histories of the National Mall, a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University using their Omeka open-source platform, must be done from the point … Continue reading Histories of the National Mall
Category: 2015
A Tale of Two Plantations
Originally posted on 2015-09-15 http://twoplantations.com/, accessed March 9, 2015 Reviewed by April P Akins, Lander University [PDF Full Text] A Tale of Two Plantations (ATTP) is based on research tying Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713 by Dr. Richard S. Dunn, together with his more recent … Continue reading A Tale of Two Plantations
Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran
Originally posted on 2015-07-09 http://www.qajarwomen.org, accessed February 16, 2015. Reviewed by Sean McConnell, Archivist, Rosenberg Library [PDF Full Text] Digitization gives archivists the opportunity to showcase rare and oftentimes overlooked collections and provides researchers access at the click of a button. Such unprecedented access is proving to be a boon for historians, students, and those … Continue reading Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran
ArchivesSpace
Originally posted on 2015-06-10 Reviewed by Chad Conrady, CA Archivist at the Minnesota Military Museum [PDF Full Text] When I was hired as the Minnesota Military Museum’s first professional archivist, I needed to provide better access to records as they were processed. The museum became an ArchivesSpace member in November 2013, and I started using … Continue reading ArchivesSpace
Bexar Archives Online
Originally posted on 2015-04-20 http://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/bexar/index.php, Accessed October 24, 2014. Reviewed by Rosemary K. J. Davis, Samuel French Collection Processing Archivist Archives and Special Collections, Frost Library, Amherst College [PDF Full Text] The Bexar Archives Online is a digital archive that collects historical documents pertaining to the Spanish and Mexican cultures existing in Texas from 1717–1805. … Continue reading Bexar Archives Online
Evernote
Originally posted on 2015-03-20 https://evernote.com/ Reviewed by Eira Tansey, University of Cincinnati [PDF Full Text] Evernote is an application intended to help people capture ideas and organize them for a wide variety of uses. Evernote’s website describes the program as helping people “write, collect, find, and present” their work,[1] and is one of the most … Continue reading Evernote
Archivematica
Originally posted on 2015-03-02 http://www.archivematica.org, Accessed December 14, 2014 Reviewed by Brad Houston, CA, University Records Archivist, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee [PDF Full Text] As the importance of long-term preservation of born-digital and digitized records grows, so too does the need for systems to manage those records in a standardized fashion. Archivematica, an OAIS-compliant, open source … Continue reading Archivematica
Founders Online
Originally posted on 2015-02-10 http://founders.archives.gov/ Reviewed by Ellen Eckert, SAA PLASC Roundtable secretary [PDF Full Text] Founders Online[1] is an intriguing source of digitized documents from six of the most influential figures of the American colonial and revolutionary periods: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. A brief search … Continue reading Founders Online
Open Library
Originally posted on 2015-01-13 https://openlibrary.org/ Reviewed by Samantha Cross, Archives Assistant [PDF Full Text] One of the primary concerns of any student, historian, researcher, librarian, or archivist is access to materials. We are living in the Digital Age and as such we have come to expect the immediate appearance of resources when we type into … Continue reading Open Library
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