Tag Archives: digital library software

Come transcribe our items!

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!

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

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!

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!!

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?

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?

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