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In March 2015, Michigan Publishing was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled “Building a Hosted Platform for Managing Monographic Source Materials.” In a nutshell, Fulcrum, as the platform is now called, is about building an online platform using the Hydra/Fedora framework to publish media-rich scholarship.
The core team consists of a project lead, project manager, data librarian, UI/UX specialist and three developers.
Below is one of our stories, boldly told through the lens of the project manager. No developers were seriously harmed in the writing of this post.
The core team consists of a project lead, project manager, data librarian, UI/UX specialist and three developers.
Below is one of our stories, boldly told through the lens of the project manager. No developers were seriously harmed in the writing of this post.
For three years the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has been assembling a vast online library to document "the full range of human experience." By reaching out to libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies throughout the United States, the DPLA has gathered metadata from a vast number of digital collections online, including photographs, books, manuscripts, moving images, and audio recordings. Despite having a staff of fewer than twenty people, the DPLA now provides access to over fourteen million records.