When I began building digital collections in Omeka, it was an opportunity to develop my skills in using metadata elements and controlled vocabularies while also getting hands-on experience with digita...
What exactly are archives? Laura Millar (2004) reminds us that archives are “defined not by their form but by their purpose”. An archive isn’t simply a stack of yellowing papers or a digital...
Local and community archives hold rare and irreplaceable audio assets, yet their preservation for future generations can be a challenge. In the past, integrating audio archives into a digital asset ma...
For a Masters’ project on website design and accessibility analysis I examined the website for the Dardalis Archives of the Hellenic Diaspora held at La Trobe University. Despite the&n...
With one in five Australians living with a print disability, the deployment of assistive technologies in the information services sector is vital to ensure equal access to information. Print disabilit...