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
Category: Services and Systems
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
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
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
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
DuraCloud
http://duracloud.org/ Reviewed by Blake E. Relle, Louisiana Secretary of State/Louisiana State Archives [PDF Full Text] DuraCloud is an open source platform used to store and manage digital content in the cloud through a single dashboard.[1] DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization that provides services to facilitate the long-term accessibility of digital collections, hosts and manages the platform. … Continue reading DuraCloud
Archive-It
Originally posted on 2014-09-18 http://www.archive-it.org Reviewed by Jillian M. Slater, Librarian/Archivist, University of Dayton Libraries [PDF Full Text] Launched by the Internet Archive in 2006, Archive-It is a subscription-based web archiving service that allows organizations to collect and preserve their digital content. According to the Learn More page on their website, Archive-It currently serves over … Continue reading Archive-It
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