Tag Archives: digital library software

Come transcribe our items!

Posted on February 9, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Recently, we talked about adding your own metadata to photos through our new Acumen tagging pane. Today, the focus is on something a bit more involved but maybe even more important: transcribing handwritten documents. Why transcribe? Did you know that many … Continue reading →

Free Digital Preservation Webinars!

Posted on March 14, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Digital Preservation, Outreach | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

After a series of very successful ASERL webinars on introductory digital preservation in the spring of 2012, a survey of librarians and archivists indicated that the most important topics for successive webinars centered on metadata selection, extraction, creation and storage … Continue reading →

Low-cost digitization of manuscript materials

Posted on July 12, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Employment | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Just published! DeRidder, Jody L.; Presnell, Amanda Axley; and Walker, Kevin W. “Leveraging Encoded Archival Descriptions for Access to Digital Content: A Cost and Usability Analysis,” in American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2012), Vol. 75, Iss. 1. Back in 2010, we were … Continue reading →

Transcribe our letters!

Posted on December 12, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology | Tagged , | Leave a comment

UA Libraries has installed web-based transcription software (Omeka and Scripto) to enable anyone to transcribe old letters and documents online.  I’ve uploaded a box of correspondence from the Cabaniss collection (about a wealthy landowner who wanted to free his slaves … Continue reading →

Acumen FINALLY available open source!!

Posted on May 23, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Software | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The long-awaited day has finally arrived.  After many trials and tribulations, we have at long last released Acumen Digital Library Software open source!!! This software is light-weight, easy to install (intended for Linux or OSX), easy to use, and it … Continue reading →

But… what if I have lots of Fred Jones letters?

Posted on May 20, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Software | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Or… what if I have Fred Jones Letters in different collections? Or… what if I have Fred Jones photographs, letters, audio tapes and more? The way we deal with this is to identify the item within a collection by an … Continue reading →

How does this Acumen thing work?

Posted on May 19, 2011 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Delivery Methodology, Software | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Acumen is our digital library delivery software… which is in the process of going live as open source.  Tonio Loewald is the developer, and we published an article about Acumen in Code4Lib last year, which will contain more detail than … Continue reading →