Special Collections

Special Collections is a data display web application. It can either work with Omeka-S back-end or as a standalone.

It provides a researcher with a personal, flexible digital archive, enabling them to import, edit, inter-link, and custom mark-up their digital media. They can act as their own librarian, accelerating their research, without artificially limiting the scale or complexity of their collection.

It can handle hierarchical (folder-tree-like) data but guides users towards elaborating more complex relations within their collections. In other words, it can bring us from a beginner’s work to a professor’s work, as a complexly internally-related digital archive.

Here is an introduction video of this project. The speaker is my internship mentor, Dr. Mulligan.

Here is a video about how a researcher’s work flow can be improved by using Special Collections. The speaker is one of my clients, Dr. Wright from School of Humanities of Rice University.

For more information, please check my github repo page.