digital-collections

I created this repository to provide the DH Community a compilation of free, open-source tools for creating and developing digital humanities projects, along with relevant tutorials and examples of projects completed with those tools. Please contact me at pacian@yahoo.com, Richard Dennis, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.

Next generation of Oregon Digital ( https://oregondigital.org ) digital collections platform, built on Samvera Hyrax ( https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/ )

An experiment in shareable tools/components for building a digital collections app in Rails.

New York City street maps from the New York Public Library — grouped by decade

ReactJS application for Northwestern Library's Digital Collections presentation layer

Desktop search tool for the Library of Congress digital collections, built for faster, more visual browsing than the default web interface. Not affiliated with the LoC.

A set of python scripts developed to support automation of digital preservation workflows at the University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre. Scripts focus on pre-ingest tasks and support comparison of directories, safe copying of content across directories and structuring content into Preservica-friendly folders.

Environmental Justice Research Repository. Developed and used as research source data for the Spring 2022 University of Oregon ENG 470 Technologies and Text Capstone Course.

Blog and working collection of unique materials from the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives

Search LOC digital collections, browse Chronicling America newspapers with full OCR text, and look up LC Subject Headings via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

The data for guides to breweries across the United States from 1896 to 1918

Promotional page for the Oral History as Data (OHD) project

Omeka S theme for the Islam West Africa Collection, an open-access francophone digital collection at ZMO Berlin. OKLCH design tokens, light/dark mode, EN/FR, WCAG 2.1 AA.

A practical application of what I've learned with my Mozilla Open Leaders cohort!

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and the research arm of the US Congress. It provides REST APIs for accessing digitized collections, Congress.gov legislative data, bibliographic records, historic newspapers via Chronicling America, maps, photographs, manuscripts, and historical government documents.

Web app for argomaps.org — a multi-institutional collection of maps and geographic material from the late C18, led by the Leventhal Map & Education Center and the Washington Library at Mount Vernon

IA Templatizer is a CLI tool for batch-generating metadata CSV files for Internet Archive workflows. Applies a user-defined metadata template (JSON) to an input CSV, filling in fields, generating identifiers, expanding repeatable fields, and validating metadata. Outputs new CSV(s) formatted for compatibility with Internet Archive CLI tools.

CollectionBuilder Digital Exhibit Essay, Tommie Mascot

The Absent Archive: Mapping Systemic Omission and Material Continuity in Andean Metadata

Missing Linked Data (MLD)