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March 2, 2009

Digital Past Updates

Finally a few minutes to stop and let everyone know what’s coming up with Digital Past in the very near term! We’ll be rolling out a fantastic new site and I hope you’ll all stop by and reacquaint yourself with it. If you are a Digital Past participant and have not subscribed to the digitize listserv, I’d strongly recommend it as that’s how you’ll find out about what you need to know as we undergo this transition.

First, we’ll be moving to CONTENTdm version 5.0 which was just released late last Fall. NSLS staff and a handful of beta testers have been doing all they can to find the bugs and get them fixed.  With the new version comes a completely rewritten – from the ground up – Project Client (previously known as Acquisition Station), faceted searching, the WorldCat search engine, full UNICODE compliance, better handling of pdfs, and other new features.

Second, the site will look completely and I mean, completely, different. We’re in the final stages of firming up the new design with the web designer.

Third, functionality will be vastly improved and highly interactive. NSLS staff have been busy building a slew of very cool applications for our users. Among these are:

• tagging
• commenting
• ability to append a photo to an existing Digital Past record (like if you have an updated photo of a building or something)
• geo-tagging (tagging with longitude and latitude with Google Maps)
• new browses: by decade, location (see above), institution, collection, etc.
• a Flickr tie-in
• a new section called Features which will highlight new and cool things appearing on the site, plus include news of the site.

And, in case anyone is keeping count out there, as of today we have 135,865 images in Digital Past that belong to 40+ institutions. We also have several new institutions that have joined but are waiting for “the Big Switch” to start adding items to the database. So, stay tuned! Timetable soon!!

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