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Digital Heritage Mapping’s Diarna Project
Digital Project Demonstration by Jason Guberman-Pfeffer
From Diarna’s website: Diarna is an initiative of Digital Heritage Mapping, a 501c3 non-profit organization using technology to map and preserve cultural heritage sites around the world. “Diarna” means “our homes” in Judeo-Arabic, a version of Arabic mixed with Hebrew spoken by Jews across the Middle East in numerous local dialects. Read an overview article about…
ArchivesSpace
Digital Project Demonstration by Katherine Kott
The ArchivesSpace community is building an open-source web application to manage descriptive information for archives, manuscripts, and digital objects, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Notes on the ArchivesSpace demonstration at the Center for Jewish History’s “From Access to Integration” conference:
Objective of ArchivesSpace: To build a “next generation” archives management tool
(A community effort,…
Digital Project Demonstrations
“From Access to Integration” – reflecting on the international conference
The selection committee used the following criteria to choose digital projects that would present at the conference:
- The project demonstrates new approaches to creation and integration of technology and content
- Innovative process (as well as product)
- Challenges that arise and the ways in which institutions and professionals can think about collaborating to meet…