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…
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:
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…