Digitization: JFK Library and Museum Will Partner with Endeca to Build First Online Digitized Presidential Archives
As you'll read, there is a lot of digitization to get done in about six months. That leads us to believe that a lot of the digitization is already complete and ready for indexing OR the database of digitized materials will grow over time.
+ [The] Digital Archives Will Launch January 20, 2011, the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration as the 35th President of the United States.
“Our library’s research facilities are among the busiest of its kind, so it was essential for us to find new ways to make our archives – and all their varied multi-media – accessible to everyone from the most seasoned historian, to school children experiencing this information for the first time.”
---Todd Putnam, director of the JFK Presidential Library and Museum
In 2006, Senator Edward Kennedy announced an unprecedented effort by the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, in partnership with the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), to build a “digital library” consisting of the papers, records, photographs, and recordings of President John F. Kennedy. The online archives, consisting of historical documents and images associated with the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, would be made accessible to global citizens, students, and scholars via a portal in the Kennedy Library website.
Project Objectives:
+ Preserve the records, manuscripts, photographs, documents, video and audio files, and objects held in the collections of the Kennedy Library’s Archives and Museum;
+ Minimize wear and tear on these irreplaceable physical assets (vulnerable to deterioration from human handling and environmental exposure);
+ Create a permanent digital library that provided online accessibility to these historic treasures for a worldwide audience;
+ Enhance the public’s ability to search these collections using metadata and state-of-the art search technology;
+ Protect these national treasures by keeping a digital copy in a separate location; and
+ Serve as a prototype for the National Archives and other Presidential Libraries in developing standards and protocols for universal application.
Of the 13 presidential libraries in existence today, only President Bill Clinton’s and President George W. Bush’s contain born-digital materials...
Fast Facts (via Endeca Release)
+ Archives currently include more than 8.4 million pages of the personal, congressional and presidential papers of John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
+ More than 40 million pages of over 300 other individuals who were associated with the Kennedy Administration or mid-20th Century American history.
+ The archives hold more than 400,000 still photographs; 9,000 hours of audio recordings; 7.5 million feet of motion picture film; and 1,200 hours of video recordings. In conjunction with partner 3Play Media, Endeca will deliver advanced search and navigation capabilities for the exploration of structured and unstructured content, regardless of format.
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