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Creating a Community Cloud: Leveraging Open-Source Software for the Mennonite Archival Information Database.

  • Published In: Archivaria, 2024, n. 98. P. 42 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Stoesz, Conrad; Hildebrand, Jason; Bak, Greg 3 of 3

Abstract

Developing and sustaining digital infrastructure is challenging for small community archives. The promise of open-source technologies can seem elusive for those faced with the steep development costs of implementing and configuring new systems and migrating data from legacy systems. When community archives co-operate by forming consortia, the costs and challenges of development, implementation, and migration can be mitigated and shared. We offer a case study of the development of an open-source Access to Memory (AtoM) database among a consortium of Mennonite archives. [End Page 42] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Archivaria. 2024/09, Issue 98, p42
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0318-6954
  • DOI:10.7202/1114836ar
  • Accession Number:181270903
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