Comments on: Software for Online Collections: Which Tools for What Purposes?

By: All these different software options for digital collections have got me all buggaboo. « JANINEVEAZUE

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:04:42 +0000

[…] Trevor Owens has come to our rescue over on the THATCamp blog, with some suggestions on his favorites, how they work, and most importantly, how they work together. […]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:35:56 +0000

Here is a link to the google doc we worked up in the course of the session feel free to keep going on it.

By: Serge Noiret

Serge Noiret — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:46:12 +0000

Would definitively be interested in looking at pro & contras of some of these instruments you mention Trevor (would love to hear more about your viewshare) and especially from the viewpoint of their capacity to activate large meta-data’s interoperability between different digital projects in cultural institutions and to better answer user’s queries for information/documentation retrieval and needs. I was thinking about what Europeana is implementing with the Assets for Europana project for example ? Would this be another way to reach the same goals ? www.assets4europeana.eu/

By: Briann Greenfield

Briann Greenfield — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:36:31 +0000

I am adding my name to the chorus of folks interested in this topic. I do a lot of work with the Connecticut Historical Society and am interested in helping them develop a greater online presence with their collections.

By: Sarah Corso

Sarah Corso — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:59:16 +0000

I would be very interested in a session like this. I am not really acquainted with digital collections management, so your suggestion of creating a document with information about the various digital tools sounds like something I would be happy to have.

By: Cathy Stanton

Cathy Stanton — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:47:03 +0000

I love this idea, Trevor. It strikes me as the kind of thing that would make a really good “History@Work” post or series of posts, perhaps with some links to examples of existing projects that are combining these tools, to show some of the possible permutations.

By: Emily Pfotenhauer

Emily Pfotenhauer — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:02:35 +0000

I think this is a great idea and producing some kind of working document that provides an overview of these tools would be extremely valuable. I have somewhat extensive experience with CONTENTdm and would be able to speak to its pluses and minuses for cultural heritage materials. Another platform that might be interesting to add to the list is PastPerfect Online, which is primarily marketed to small, local history organizations.