digital archive projects and ideas

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Trying to keep a semi-running list of interesting projects that may inspire or provide datasets, etc.

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• https://app.wileydigitalarchives.com/rgs
  • Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) was founded in 1830. The learned Society promotes the advancement of geographical science in all its aspects. The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes (as gores or mounted on stands) and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485.
  • Wiley Digital Archives has partnered with RGS-IBG to digitise and bring a large part of this world-class collection to researchers around the world. The majority of content in the Wiley Digital Archive collection presents primary source materials from new scanning that have never been published before and hitherto have only been accessible by visiting the physical archive.

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• https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15000 "Where Do We Go From Here: A Review of Technology Solutions for Providing Access to Digital Collections"
• https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2017/08/09/collection-management-system-collection/ The Collection Management System Collection
  • Crowd-sourcing a list of digital repository options.
  • Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cXOug3qM0pNNeD_wssiVEv9c0W1Y5I1VDTnSPTk7fb4/edit?usp=sharing
• https://www.quartexcollections.com/ Quartex: Create Digital Collections

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• https://www.mrdlab.org/ (from Lan Li) - MEDICINE RACE DEMOCRACY: a research lab in the medical humanities