Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management Tools

Open source software (OSS) popularity is growing steadily and many OSS systems could be used to preserve cultural heritage objects. Such solutions give the opportunity to organizations to afford the development of a digital collection. This paper focuses on reviewing two OSS tools, CollectionSpace a...

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Main Authors: Georgios Gkoumas, Fotis Lazarinis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics 2013-09-01
Series:Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
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Online Access:https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/view/407
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description Open source software (OSS) popularity is growing steadily and many OSS systems could be used to preserve cultural heritage objects. Such solutions give the opportunity to organizations to afford the development of a digital collection. This paper focuses on reviewing two OSS tools, CollectionSpace and the Open Video Digital Library Toolkit and discuss on how these could be used for organizing digital replicas of cultural objects. The features of the software are presented and some examples are given.
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spelling doaj.art-22418e72d7164464b7ea8aacb7065e912022-12-22T03:22:15ZengBulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics and InformaticsDigital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage1314-40062535-03662013-09-01310.55630/dipp.2013.3.19Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management ToolsGeorgios Gkoumas0Fotis Lazarinis1Applied Arts School, Hellenic Open University, GreeceApplied Arts School, Hellenic Open University, Greece; Department of Archival and Library Sciences, Ionian University, GreeceOpen source software (OSS) popularity is growing steadily and many OSS systems could be used to preserve cultural heritage objects. Such solutions give the opportunity to organizations to afford the development of a digital collection. This paper focuses on reviewing two OSS tools, CollectionSpace and the Open Video Digital Library Toolkit and discuss on how these could be used for organizing digital replicas of cultural objects. The features of the software are presented and some examples are given.https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/view/407Heritage ManagementOpen Source SoftwareCollectionSpaceOVDLTDigital Library
spellingShingle Georgios Gkoumas
Fotis Lazarinis
Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management Tools
Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
Heritage Management
Open Source Software
CollectionSpace
OVDLT
Digital Library
title Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management Tools
title_full Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management Tools
title_fullStr Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management Tools
title_full_unstemmed Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management Tools
title_short Preserving Cultural Heritage Using Open Source Collection Management Tools
title_sort preserving cultural heritage using open source collection management tools
topic Heritage Management
Open Source Software
CollectionSpace
OVDLT
Digital Library
url https://dipp.math.bas.bg/dipp/article/view/407
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