Digital Heritage, e-Citizenship, Community Engagement

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 [...]

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 [...]