The Bracero History Archive was an early Omeka site built by RRCHNM. The project itself was a collaboration between multiple institutions. It brings together artifacts and oral histories from the Bracero program of the mid-twentieth century. In addition to being a significant digital history project […]
True Stories
Phasing project shutdown
As part of our sustainability efforts, we created the end of project workflow which we have shared on this site. How does that actually work when put into practice? In some cases, it has allowed us to wind down projects in stages – keeping core […]
Monitoring and managing a collecting project
One of the projects which came to the sustainability team was The September 11 Digital Archive. Although I (Megan) had not previously been officially involved with the project, I had been part of projects and conversations which touched on or included the site (specifically the […]
Podcasts and sustainability
In the spring of 2022, the podcast Consolation Prize was wrapping up its second and final season. As a member of both of the Sustainability and Consolation Prize teams, I (Megan) was tasked with initiating the end-of-project workflow for the show’s website. At the same […]
Upgrading antique Omeka sites
Some of the older sites – orphaned and not – which we had to deal with fell into a category which can loosely be called “Antique Omeka sites”. These sites were created mostly before 2011, and ran versions of Omeka Classic from 0.8 through 1.2. […]