Digital Heritage Consultants

Earlier on in the year we started a project which involves digitizing and making available online a large number of newspaper clippings.  We had originally looked at Greenstone for the collections management software but it seemed too clunky for what we needed.  Likewise Drupal wasn’t ideal as it needed a fair bit of customization in [...]

As most of our work is done online it is important to keep abreast of developments on and about the Internet. Here is a recent documentary by Kate Ray exploring the potential and limits of what is known as ‘The Semantic Web’ or Web 3.0. Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo. In a similar [...]

We are currently involved in a project which involves digitising a collection of newspaper clipping and then making them available (and usable) for research online.  We are exporting the scanned articles as PDFs and then using the open source collections management software Omeka, developed by the Centre for History and New Media, to organise and [...]

We’ve recently updated the ESAACH website and encourage you to visit it (more on the project). The online component of the project takes the form of a wiki.  The idea behind using this type of software is that members of the public – including but not limited to the academic and arts communities – can [...]