Please enjoy my colleague Ranju’s account of her recent experience studying Digitisation II which is a module of the MA in Historical Archives, run by the History Department at NUI Maynooth. It is also really worthwhile checking out her project at Omega.
Old TTC Rosedale bus, City of Toronto Archive (Photo: http://bit.ly/1nVjvEz)
***Posted on behalf of Ranju Upadhyay, Programmer, The Library, NUI Maynooth***
During the period of 7th Feb 2014 to 14th March 2014, I undertook Digitisation II module which is part of MA in Historical Archives, run by History Department at NUIM.
Apart from having theory classes at the Library we had field trips to National Archives, NUI Galway (Abbey Theatre Digitisation Project), PRONI Belfast. Each visit, though related to Digitisation of Historical Materials, offered something different and interesting to learn. With each place we visited, we got to learn about the different kind of software systems they are using for digital preservation, conservation and access. While Abbey Theatre digitisation project used a mix of open source and proprietary software, PRONI had chosen to do their in house development on top of CALM archival software.
As a requirement for the completion of the module we all had to complete a project and make accessible at Omeka. Mine is available at Omeka.
Library Staff Development 