M AKING LEMONADE Low cost (or free) tips, tricks, and tools to make your digital archives accessible Christina Prucha Logan College of Chiropractic MOBIUS Conference 4 June 2013

T HE PROBLEM No funding for the archives or its projects Digitizing Software training No tech support for OMEKA.

T HE G OAL Making digital content available when the budget is small (or non-existent) and/or there is little to no tech support.

HTTP :// OMEKA. NET Cloud-based Low-tech Uses pre-configured themes and plug-ins Standards-based (Dublin Core) Free 500 MB account and other variably priced accounts

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L ESSONS LEARNED Super easy to use and end product looks nice! Works great for images! I wish it had a slideshow feature. Definitely can be used for documents but I find I like it better for images. (This is probably due to me trying to maximize what I can do with 500 MB.) I wish the subjects were searchable. (Only keywords are searchable at present.) Don’t overload the CSV feature (bulk upload for metadata stored in an Excel worksheet).

HTTP ://I SSUU. COM Page turning software Easy to use Cloud-based Free or reasonably priced subscriptions

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L ESSONS LEARNED So far, I like it. Clean presentation. Easily embedded or linked to. Lots of potential to market. I’m giving up having everything integrated in one site but I’ve gained a very nice presentation platform. The “search this publication” feature hasn’t work for me and I’m not sure why. Free (with ads). Paid subscription has no ads, as I understand it. Overall, very pleased with ease of use and presentation.

C HRISTINA P RUCHA C ATALOGER /A RCHIVIST L OGAN C OLLEGE OF C HIROPRACTIC CHRISTINA. LOGAN. EDU CHRISTINA. LOGAN. EDU