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Posted by: Susan Manus
(Note: In the interest of long term access, we will occasionally post material to The Signal that was previously published only on our website. The following is an updated version of an article from our “Meeting the Challenge” series.) Saving the nation’s cultural heritage is an increasingly important matter for government agencies that hold large …
Posted in: Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration
Posted by: Susan Manus
The Omeka project team is coming up with some good solutions for building an open source community. Omeka, an open source web publishing platform for cultural heritage collections, was developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. (An overview of Omeka is given in a previous blog post …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure
Posted by: Susan Manus
The following is a guest post by Carl Fleischhauer, a Digital Initiatives Project Manager in NDIIPP. In mid-October, BMS/Chace of Nashville, Tennessee, released the “first generation version” of a software tool to support the collection of metadata for the multi-track, multi-session sound recordings being produced in the music industry today. The Metadata for Recorded Sound …
Posted in: Digital Content, Tools and Infrastructure