Open AccessPainless Portal Partnerships: Collaboration and Its Challenges for Small Organizations
Author(s) -
Christine McEvilly
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
archival issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2328-546X
pISSN - 1067-4993
DOI - 10.31274/archivalissues.11050
Subject(s) - metadata , judaism , ethnic group , world wide web , library science , political science , sociology , history , computer science , archaeology , law
This article addresses challenges inherent in collaborative archival projects involving both large institutions and small historical societies. It identifies these unique problems and outlines potential solutions to overcome these issues. Examples are drawn from the Portal to American Jewish History project and contextualized within the professional literature on ethnic or community archives and archival collaboration. This project collected metadata from a wide range of Jewish history archives and aggregated the records in a single searchable website.