http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/15/expanding-access-to-historical-content/ April 24, 2015, at the University of Florida Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/15/expanding-access-to-historical-content/#comment-182 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:01:21 +0000 http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/?p=232#comment-182 All of our digitized material is uploaded to Chronicling America, a database created by the Library of Congress, and is accessible by the public for free. This project helps make content on aging microfilm more readily available and allows users to view the content more easily. Tools on Chronicling America allows patrons to browse by date, state, and is word-searchable which allows patrons to search for a specific topic of interest.
I think our project is used by a variety of people, may it be genealogist looking for information or a loved ones obituary, historians doing research on a specific event, or anyone simply interested in viewing historical content. With our project we not only preserve the content on aging microfilm, but we also help people such as these easily access material, saving them from spending countless hours browsing through microfilm at microfilm machines or from having to travel to specific institutions where certain content may be found.

]]> http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/15/expanding-access-to-historical-content/#comment-176 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:30:56 +0000 http://gainesville2015.thatcamp.org/?p=232#comment-176 I’d be interested in knowing how you all are thinking of potential users and uses of these newspapers as you plan the digitization process. How will people want to interact with them, and what does technology afford?

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