Open Source Digital Archives Displays

[Yiwei Wang]

I'm using Greenstone for my class project too. It's highly recommended by
our instructor. The installation shouldn't be very hard. May give it a try.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke <randtke at gmail.com>wrote:

> I used Greenstone for a simple photo sharing project with classmates
> during library school.  It takes some technical skill to install - you need
> to know a little unix to install Greenstone.  Once it is installed, the
> interface is more graphical.  The look and feel can be customized through a
> series of forms, accounts can be made for people to upload photos and enter
> metadata.  It automatically includes Dublin Core fields, and you can create
> custom metadata fields.  You can also get plug-ins to ingest metadata in
> XML, MARC, CDS/ISIS, ProCite, BibTex, Refer, OAI, DSpace, METS forms.
>
> In Greenstone, straight uploading photos, entering metadata, and tweaking
> the color scheme and graphics in the interface was simple.  Installing the
> initial set-up was a little complicated.  I'm fairly technical (from the
> library side, not the IT side), had access to someone who had worked with
> Greenstone before, and could do the install OK.
>
> University of Florida digital libraries uses Greenstone, with in-house
> modifications:  http://digital.uflib.ufl.edu/
>
> From talking to people who have used both, Greenstone and Omeka are
> comparable.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Slavinski, Kate <
> slavinskik1 at owls.southernct.edu> wrote:
>
>>  I am in the process of creating a digital display of old photographs
>> for the archives where I work, and I was wondering if anyone can share some
>> good experiences with open source software for digital photograph displays.
>>
>> Thank you for your help,
>>
>> Kate Slavinski
>>
>> MLS Student
>>
>> Southern Connecticut State University
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Yiwei Wang
MSI 2012
School of Information - Library and Information Science
 University of Michigan

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