Best archival software to create online archive?
June 26, 2019 11:07 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for archival software for the supporting research to a work of historical fiction. It needs to be very secure, but also might eventually be made publicly available.
Here are my basic requirements:
Connect the research (done over years by several different people) to specific places in the document, character profiles, historical overview, etc.
The research is in the form of scanned documents, books (some scanned, some would be links to Amazon), websites, images, music and video (music/video mostly not hosted by us, i.e. youtube, etc.).
Multiple users in different locations can input data (we have a huge backlog).
Multiple users in different locations can securely log in and read-only.
It must be extremely secure, with that security either inherent to the software itself or can exists behind a robust web firewall.
Here are my basic requirements:
Connect the research (done over years by several different people) to specific places in the document, character profiles, historical overview, etc.
The research is in the form of scanned documents, books (some scanned, some would be links to Amazon), websites, images, music and video (music/video mostly not hosted by us, i.e. youtube, etc.).
Multiple users in different locations can input data (we have a huge backlog).
Multiple users in different locations can securely log in and read-only.
It must be extremely secure, with that security either inherent to the software itself or can exists behind a robust web firewall.
Best answer: My colleagues use Islandora for this purpose. It is open source software backed by a big consortium of academic institutions. Supports lots of different metadata standards, file formats, ingests them, has good viewers for most media types, is searchable, blah blah. We sell consulting services in our country (New Zealand) and there are options for professional support around the world, particularly North America.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 12:46 PM on June 26, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 12:46 PM on June 26, 2019 [1 favorite]
Best answer: I would suggest looking at Omeka and Scalar - both are online publishing /exhibit platforms developed for digital humanities project in academia.
Scalar has the advantage of being able to work with a lot of linked media types - so if you want to include at videos hosted by YouTube or Vimeo - Scalar handles that pretty well.
Both of these platforms have some learning curve - but are not terribly difficult. Reclaim Hosting is who a lot of folks in higher ed (including my institution) use - they could speak more about the security issues.
posted by pantarei70 at 1:46 PM on June 26, 2019 [2 favorites]
Scalar has the advantage of being able to work with a lot of linked media types - so if you want to include at videos hosted by YouTube or Vimeo - Scalar handles that pretty well.
Both of these platforms have some learning curve - but are not terribly difficult. Reclaim Hosting is who a lot of folks in higher ed (including my institution) use - they could speak more about the security issues.
posted by pantarei70 at 1:46 PM on June 26, 2019 [2 favorites]
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posted by ljshapiro at 11:13 AM on June 26, 2019