digital assets – THATCamp Columbus 2010 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:48:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Digital Resources Outside the System! http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/14/digital-resources-outside-the-system/ http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/01/14/digital-resources-outside-the-system/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:09:07 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=497

In my day job at the Ohio Historical Society I spend a lot of time working with online collections systems (primarily CONTENTdm). However, most of these systems come “pre-staged” with a particular look and feel and set of behaviors. These days, we want the ability to work with our digital treasures outside of their prefabricated digital homes. Moreover, we’d like to repurpose our digital resources, and do new and interesting and dynamic things with them. Assuming the collections system offers some method of working with its contents (e.g. via API or RESTful web services, etc.), the way should be open to providing new online experiences for a wide range of purposes. I’ve experimented with using several javascript frameworks to “produce” a couple of different “restagings”, and can talk about those experiences. But I am broadly interested in hearing about any other ideas, technologies and toolkits that are able to further leverage the contents of digital repositories. I’d love to hear from THATcampers!

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