Abstract
The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) digitizes out-of-copyright periodicals relating to the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound, and makes them widely available for public use. In this essay, the creators of the MHDL website and its new search tool, Lantern, reflect on the development process. Three goals-access, usability, and impact-drive their work, and they discuss each goal in depth. They find that a synthesis of different communities, collections, skill sets, and open source software frameworks is key to achieving these goals.
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Hoyt, Eric; Hagenmaier, Wendy; and Hagenmaier, Carl
(2013)
"Media + History + Digital + Library: An Experiment in Synthesis,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 3:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.430
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol3/iss1/11