Small Archives Solution Community
Steward: Ari Davidow, Jewish Women's Archive
Knowledgebase Gardener: (to be determined)Evangelist: (to be determined)
Small archives represent the long tail of cultural heritage. The mission of the Small Archive Solution Community is to address the need for small organizations to assure preservation of, dissemination of, and long term access to their cultural heritage assets. As a community we can not only further preservation access and foster knowledge sharing, but can collaborate to secure resources to develop tools, training, documentation, and general solutions. This community is intended for the thousands of small cultural heritage organizations who lack resources to implement a solution on their own.
- Goals
- Assumptions
Some resources on the way
Here are a couple of resources that may be useful as we work on our goals, assumptions, and come up with a working plan to organize:
ActiveFedora--this project was initially funded by the Jewish Women's Archive ( 
jwaonline) and carried out by MediaShelf. It provides a Ruby-on-rails interface to fedora good enough for basic admin. The original project had only one content model, however, an "oral history".
Hydra--Is intended to address the same questions as ActiveFedora: Hydra will provide a 'Lego set' of web services and templates that can be configured and reconfigured to suit a wide range of different workflows that institutions might have or might develop to manage their digital content. It is a collaboration between the Universities of Hull, Stanford and Virginia working in partnership with Fedora Commons.
Islandora--a Drupal module that connects the open source CMS, Drupal, with Fedora. The original version worked with Drupal 5 and Fedora 2. A version that works with D6/F3 is due shortly. At the Jewish Women's Archive, we see this as the next phase in tying our nascent repository to our CMS.
RODA--a project of the Portuguese National Archives to create a Digital Repository suitable for archives.
