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Making lemonade

Making lemonade. Low cost (or free) tips, tricks, and tools to make your digital archives accessible. Christina Prucha • Logan College of Chiropractic MOBIUS Conference • 4 June 2013. The problem. No funding for the archives or its projects Digitizing Software training

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Making lemonade

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  1. Making lemonade Low cost (or free) tips, tricks, and tools to make your digital archives accessible Christina Prucha • Logan College of Chiropractic MOBIUS Conference • 4 June 2013

  2. The problem • No funding for the archives or its projects • Digitizing • Software • training • No tech support for OMEKA.

  3. The Goal • Making digital content available when the budget is small (or non-existent) and/or there is little to no tech support.

  4. http://omeka.net Cloud-based Low-tech Uses pre-configured themes and plug-ins Standards-based (Dublin Core) Free 500 MB account and other variably priced accounts

  5. Easy sign-up

  6. Easy management

  7. Easy use

  8. Easy upload

  9. Clean display Top part of page Lower part of page

  10. Lessons learned • Super easy to use and end product looks nice! • Works great for images! • I wish it had a slideshow feature. • Definitely can be used for documents but I find I like it better for images. (This is probably due to me trying to maximize what I can do with 500 MB.) • I wish the subjects were searchable. (Only keywords are searchable at present.) • Don’t overload the CSV feature (bulk upload for metadata stored in an Excel worksheet).

  11. http://Issuu.com Page turning software Easy to use Cloud-based Free or reasonably priced subscriptions

  12. Easy management

  13. Easy upload

  14. Embed or link to website (we use libguides.) Embed code Libguides page with links

  15. viewer

  16. Lessons learned • So far, I like it. Clean presentation. Easily embedded or linked to. • Lots of potential to market. • I’m giving up having everything integrated in one site but I’ve gained a very nice presentation platform. • The “search this publication” feature hasn’t work for me and I’m not sure why. • Free (with ads). Paid subscription has no ads, as I understand it. • Overall, very pleased with ease of use and presentation.

  17. Christina PruchaCataloger/ArchivistLogan College of Chiropracticchristina.prucha@logan.edu636.230.1783

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