This document provides information on moving local history collections online using open source software. It discusses digitizing books, newspapers, photographs and other materials. It describes metadata standards like BEXT and MODS that can be used to describe digital assets. It also mentions tools like Apache Tomcat server, Lucene for indexing, and Sphinx for audio transcription that can be used to build a web application for browsing, searching and validating archived collections. The goal is to make local history more accessible and shareable through an online oral history archive.

1. 1 – Moving Local History Online
ResCarta Foundation
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WWW.ResCarta.org

2. 2 - Why Open Source Software
Why Open Source Software

3. 3 - Why Standard Outputs
Standard Outputs

4. 4 – What to do?
Books Newspapers Photos
Door County

5. 5 – Books Photographs
Small size
Fits on a flatbed scanner
We have them

6. 6 – Create/Convert Audio
ty

7. 7- Metadata – Tell me about it!
BEXT – Technical
MODS – Descriptive
Marker Chunks - Transcriptions

8. 8 – Transcribe Check Text / Audio
Carnegie Mellon U
Sphinx

9. 9 – Collect and Index
Lucene

10. 9 – Collect and Index
Lucene

11. 10 – Serve Up the Data
Apache Tomcat Server

12. 10 – Serve Up the Data
Apache Tomcat Server

13. 11 - Write a Web Application

14. 11 - Get a Web Application

15. 12 – Browse and Search
Browse Collections

16. 13 – In Action
Searching the Archive

17. 16 – Validate your data
Audio Hit
Extend the usefulness

18. 17 – Sharing and Research
Oral Histories become more than an abstract

19. 18 – Sharing and Research
OAI/PMH Zotero in line metadata

20. 19 Lots of Copies
Checksum validation

21. 20 - Thanks
John Sarnowski
Director
The ResCarta Foundation
www.ResCarta.org
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