September 11 Digital Archive: Saving America's Treasures
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Title
September 11 Digital Archive: Saving America's Treasures
Description
Saving America's Treasures grant proposal to the NEH and National Park Service to update and stabilize the September 11 Digital Archive
Project Item Type Metadata
Title
September 11 Digital Archive: Saving America's Treasures
Description
In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the staff at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the American Social History Project (ASHP) at the City University of New York Graduate Center CHNM and ASHP built a rough and ready web portal, the September 11 Digital Archive to capture the responses to and materials produced in the wake of those terrible events. At 150,000 items, the Archive stands as the world's largest public collection of born-digital materials related to the events of September 11. Cutting edge at its launch nearly ten years ago, the Archive now is showing its age. Given the significance and fragile state of the Archive, we propose transferring this groundbreaking digital collection to a stable, standardized, up-to-date archival system that will insure the long-term preservation of these materials and guarantee these primary sources of contemporary history will be accessible in the coming decades.
Start Date
10/01/2011
End Date
9/30/2014
Director(s)
Tom Scheinfeldt
Sheila Brennan
Programmers
Ammon Shepherd
Jim Safley
Staff Members
Dan Cohen
Jeri Wieringa
Deliverables
1. Survey off digital assets and creating metadata crosswalks from original site to Omeka.
2. Customizing Omeka installation, creating multiple backups, and migrating data to a new server.
3. Automated testing of the system, UI redesign, testing, and relaunch of site.
Project URL
Funder
National Endowment for the Humanities
Technology Used
Omeka
Files
Collection
Citation
“September 11 Digital Archive: Saving America's Treasures,” RRCHNM20, accessed October 15, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/200.
Item Relations
This Item | foaf:fundedBy | Item: National Endowment for the Humanities |
This Item | Staff | Item: Tom Scheinfeldt |
This Item | Staff | Item: Sharon Leon |
This Item | Staff | Item: Ammon Shepherd |
This Item | Staff | Item: Jim Safley |
This Item | Staff | Item: Sheila Brennan |