Document Type
Speech/Presentation/Lecture
Publication Date
11-7-2012
Journal/Book/Conference Title
2012 Virtual CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Abstract
In October 2012, the University of Iowa Libraries expanded and re-launched their successful Civil War Diaries and Letters Transcription Project as DIY History (http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu) to include new areas of content and improved functionality. This presentation covers some of the technical challenges involved in transitioning from homegrown experiment to customized open-source software, Omeka and Scripto, as well as new strategies for repurposing metadata and content beyond the repository
Keywords
crowdsourcing, digital collections, digital libraries, metadata
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Presentation notes
URL
http://ir.uiowa.edu/lib_pubs/125
