A mobile application for the rapid digitization of archival collections by reading room patrons.
Allow patrons to photograph collection materials and link them to EAD-encoded archival metadata using ArchivesSpace API.
Use existing smartphone technologies to make this process intuitive to users.
Help users manage the masses of digital images they accumulate during a research trip.
Give the repository a choice to either make these images avalable to other patrons, or offer the application as a personal organizing tool for images that will not or should not be shared.
Encourage a climate of decreased risk-aversion around copyright and serving images on the web.
ASpace API
- Insert Digital Object
- Query/Browse Resource
iOS +
Android +
"Capture and Release: Digital Cameras in the Reading Room" OCLC http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2010/2010-05.pdf "Scan and Deliver: Managing User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives" OCLC http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2011/2011-05.pdf