By Selena Chau, Librarian, University of California at Santa Barbara [PDF Full Text] Online exhibit platforms allow for the curation of a cultural heritage institution’s items beyond the functionality of a digital collections platform. Platforms to build online exhibits include features for multimedia storytelling and audience engagement with primary source materials. In this review, I … Continue reading Technology Roundup: Free and Low-Cost Online Exhibit Platforms
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Access to Memory
https://www.accesstomemory.org https://www.artefactual.com/ Reviewed by Nancy L. Webster, archives director, Highland Park Historical Society, and adjunct professor, Dominican University [PDF Full Text] Access to Memory (AtoM) is a “web-based, open source application for standards-based archival description and access in a multilingual, multi-repository environment” (https://www.accesstomemory.org/en/). AtoM is open-source and free. The International Council on Archives supported AtoM’s … Continue reading Access to Memory
Dictionary of Archives Terminology
https://dictionary.archivists.org/ Reviewed by Gregory K. Tharp, MLS, Adv. Cert., MCAC [PDF Full Text] In the ever-changing world of archives terminology, the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Dictionary of Archives Terminology (DAT) provides a resource to assist scholars, researchers, and archivists with understanding key concepts and terms that underpin archival work. As “North America’s oldest and … Continue reading Dictionary of Archives Terminology
Aeon
https://www.atlas-sys.com/aeon Reviewed by Anna Holland, Associate Curator, Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries [PDF Full Text] Aeon is part of the suite of library software supported by Atlas Systems, which also includes ArchivesSpace, ILLiad, and Ares. Aeon 5.2 was released in March 2023. Aeon automates public service workflows in archives and special collections. Using … Continue reading Aeon
Citizen Archivist
https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/ Reviewed by Hannah Pryor, University of Louisville Archives & Special Collections [PDF Full Text] Introduced in 2010 by past Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, Citizen Archivist is a web-based, crowdsourced transcription and metadata program hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).[1] The online dashboard launched in 2011 and provides a … Continue reading Citizen Archivist
Transkribus Lite
https://app.transkribus.eu/ Reviewed by Jonathan Lawler, Archivist and Digital Collections Manager, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary [PDF Full Text] Transkribus Lite is a web browser–based text recognition and transcription tool helpful to archivists with varying levels of career experience serving in all types of institutions. The tool was developed by the Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents … Continue reading Transkribus Lite
ArchivesSpace Revisited
http://archivesspace.org/ Reviewed by Bryan Mathison, Senior Library Associate at Mitchell Memorial Library [PDF Full Text] The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana is an archives and museum collection featuring artifacts, pamphlets, books, and manuscripts.[1] When I began my current position in early 2020, I had limited experience processing collections. Unlike other institutions where I … Continue reading ArchivesSpace Revisited
Smithsonian Transcription Center Review
https://transcription.si.edu/ Reviewed by Katherine Herrick, University of Missouri [PDF Full Text] Preserving archives has always been a battle against time. The delicate cursive penmanship found in historical collections of letters and the ink-stamped correspondences punched out on typewriters inevitably fade. It can take years for archivists to collect, appraise, arrange, describe, and digitize these documents, … Continue reading Smithsonian Transcription Center Review
TIND.io Institutional Repository
https://tind.io, https://info.tind.io/IR, Facebook, Twitter Reviewed by Nicolette Lodico, Global Information and KM, Ford Foundation [PDF Full Text] TIND.io is an official spin-off of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN is one of the world’s largest centers for scientific research. It’s also where, in March 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote his first proposal for … Continue reading TIND.io Institutional Repository
Preservica
https://preservica.com/ Interview by Rose Buchanan and Stephanie Luke, SAA Reviews Editors [PDF Full Text] Digital archivists and their institutions have a challenging mandate: to preserve and provide access to digitized and born-digital content now and in the future. What software should archivists trust to support this critical work? We asked two digital archivists—Paige Monlux of … Continue reading Preservica
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