Viewshare ... Learn How to Use and Work With It!

This course has been retired.

Certificate Eligibility:

DAS

Credits:

1 ARC

Length:

90 minutes

Format:

Webcast

Tier:

Tools and Services

ACE Category:

Reference Services and Access

Description:

Viewshare is a free and easy-to-use platform for creating and customizing interfaces (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) to digital collections and collection metadata. You’ll learn about how you can create these interfaces and use them as ways to explore relationships in collection and provide new modes of access to online collection data.

Learning Outcomes:

Import data from spreadsheets, MODS records, and Dublin Core data via OAI-PMH

Work with your data by generating structured information (like points of latitude and longitude) from plain text place names

Build dynamic interfaces to your collection information, including maps, timelines, and charts

Share the view you create with everyone or with only select individuals

Embed the interface you create into your own website

Who Should Attend:

Archivists, records managers, IT professionals, librarians, and museum professionals

What You Should Already Know:

Ideally, you should register for a free Viewshare account prior to the webinar so that you can experiment with your own data set and follow along during and directly after the course.

DAS Core Competency:

3. Formulate strategies and tactics for appraising, acquiring, describing, managing, organizing, preserving, and delivering digital archives.

4. Incorporate technologies throughout the archival lifecycle.

5. Strategically plan for the sustainability of digital archives.

7. Design a defined set of services for designated community.

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