So You Want to Make A Digital Archive? Three Strategy Questions

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Managing physical and digital files, metadata-gathering, and enabling complex internal or public searches of cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets are issues faced by many organizations: large, small, funded, volunteer... At Openflows, I build digital catalogs and archives regularly and want to share some of those specific strategies we use…
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Digital Catalog, Data Migration, Schema & Architecture Analysis: WLCC Research Lab

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From 2014-2015, I worked with researchers and digital conservationists at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center at Clemson University to create a digital collection management system for the archeological research on The Hunley. Using CollectiveAccess as our destination, we imported over 90,000 records from MicrosoftAccess, cleaning the data and mapping it…
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Workshop 3/11/14: Digital Cataloging and Archiving with Open Source Software

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Tuesday March 11, 2014, 6:30--10pm workshop @ Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in NYC. Register online here. Creating and managing digital archives, catalogs, and collections is a growing concern as organizations seek to manage files and records, metadata-gather, and enable complex searches of their cultural production, ephemera, archives and/or born-digital assets.…
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