Tutorial

T1.4 - Build it, Share it, Keep it safe

Building digital archives with open source software

This will be an introduction to building digital archives. During the session we will cover...

  • Selection criteria
  • Basic digitizing with scanners, cameras and microphones.  Covering resolutions, color depths, compression, OCR and ACR.
  • Metadata minimums and standards. Covering descriptive, administrative, technical and structural metadata elements.
  • Building collections and indexing
  • Discovery and display.  Building a web server and  a web application.
  • Validation and maintenance of a digital archive
The tutorial will be presented by John Sarnowski, Directory of the ResCarta Foundation. John Sarnowski has over 30 years experience in building digital collections. He was responsible for creating millions of images and metadata for learned societies, libraries and major corporations as the director of Imaging Products at Northern Micrographics. Projects that included "The Making of America" for Cornell University and The University of Michigan, JSTOR, and the archives of the American Medical Association. He currently is a director of the ResCarta Foundation, a not for profit whose object is to provide libraries, museums and archives with tools to create standardized digital collections. John has made presentations for library associations both here and abroad.
Are you looking for links to the open source software used or to websites built using the software?