Inspiration

Aquifer   Jul 15, 2008 (1 week ago)

Jenn Riley's Wordle creation for FRBR inspired me to create one from the draft of a paper I'm writing about Aquifer and American Social History Online for the Library Assessment Conference coming up next month. Speaking of Jenn, she and several members of the metadata working group, John Chapman,...

New Features! New Collections!

Aquifer   Jul 7, 2008 (2 weeks ago)

An updated release of American Social History Online with new features and new collections is now available. The front page offers browsing short cuts by place, time, and broad subject category. A new map view offers visualization through a Google maps mashup . Do a search, then select map view to see results displayed by geographic location....

Preparing for Assessment

Aquifer   Jun 5, 2008 (1 month ago)

The Aquifer Services Working Group is organizing the assessment activities for American Social History Online . Members of the Services Working Group will use a variety of methods to gather information about how scholars use the Web site and how well it and the services associated with it works for them....

Aquifer and American Social History Online at DLF Spring Forum

Aquifer   May 2, 2008 (2 months ago)

There was a flurry of Aquifer and American Social History Online activity at DLF Forum in Minneapolis this week. The DLF Board meeting before the Forum included an open discussion about Aquifer's future. Will DLF have a continued interest in Aquifer elements that have been well received by the digital library community, such as the...

Update on work since January

khage's blog   Apr 17, 2008 (3 months ago)

I've done quite a bit of work since January 30-- just slow to update. 1. Worked with core team to develop a set of browsable subject categories for the main page (which will be rolled out with the timeline and geographic facets at the same time). Once we had these, I cataloged each registry record to have one or more of these subjects....