Hack your Library (or archives)

Proofs-of-concept for plug-and-play tools to create funner, prettier, user-friendlier library and archives interfaces.

Use Swipebox for a mobile-friendly, side-swipe-addicting image gallery.

John Buckland Wright images

Zora Neale Hurston Collection images

Russian Philately Resources landing page

Use HTML5 UP designs to create responsive finding aids.

Zora Neale Hurston Collection

Use HTML5 UP designs to create a browsing portal.

Judaica Collections

Florida History

Use iWebKit to create a simple mobile site.

U.Miami Special Collections

Use Tagul to create a clickable word cloud (aka, facets on crack).

Jackie Gleason Collection

Panama Canal Museum Inventory

Unique & Special Materials at the University of Florida

Use simpleCart(js) to build a finding aid shopping cart.

Circulate demo and documentation

Correspondence in the Zora Neale Hurston Collection

More info: "Turn Your Finding Aid into a Shopping Cart" (Archival Practice vol. 1, no. 1)

Use TemaTres to control local vocabularies or build an ontology.

Artists Books Thesaurus

Use Google Maps to visualize metadata cartographically.

St. Augustine Properties

Provide guided search with the assignFAST gadget.

Search the Library Catalog