CONTENTdm
The state of Illinois has a similar project, called the
Illinois Digital Archives, hosted by the Illinois State Library (see http://www.idaillinois.org/ ). It
also uses CONTENTdm as a platform. We're currently submitting scanned
copies of memoirs from our oral history collection to IDA, using
the CONTENTdm acquisition station. The interface is a fairly
straightforward Dublin Core derived fill-in-the-fields system. The
process for administering authority control and building an index seems
awkward at first, but is easy enough to get used to. Queuing and uploading
digital objects is easy enough, but large files choke it up a bit. The system
has good search features, and there are some neat bells and whistles like
downloading favorite items and exporting them to PowerPoint -- and
EAD can be built into the system, I'm told.
Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at
Springfield
One University
Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407
217-206-6520 | [log in to unmask] | <http://www.uis.edu/archives/>
Hi Arel,
Here at the State Library, we just
launched a new service called the Arizona Memory Project, which uses CONTENTdm
as our system. Check out our site at: http://azmemory.lib.az.us.
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