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,…

“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…
  

This morning, in her introduction to the first working session, Carol A. Mandel (Dean, Division of Libraries, New York University) outlines three tasks for our conference participants:

First, they should think about what they know from their own scholarship, experience and projects that can be of use in thinking about the projects that are being presented here today. Making these projects “better” can mean…

Participants: Michael S. Glickman (Chief Operating Officer, Center for Jewish History); Deanna Marcum (Associate Library for Library Services, Library of Congress); Oren Weinberg (Director General, National Library of Israel); Moderator: Stanley N. Katz (Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University)

Library and archival institutions worldwide are facing the challenge of selecting, processing and presenting collections of electronic material—both digital surrogates of…