CONTENTdm → Omeka
Jefferson County Public Library
To preserve and share local oral histories, Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado left its legacy CONTENTdm constraints for an open-access approach — and deliberately split preservation from presentation. Public access and exhibition run through a public-facing Omeka instance, while high-resolution archival master files are deposited into DuraCloud for long-term digital preservation. Decoupling the two layers let the library optimise both cost and capability, giving the community rich online access to previously hard-to-reach audio without compromising the safety of the preservation copies. A useful public-library model for combining Omeka access with dedicated cloud preservation.
Original source
Finding access and digital preservation solutions for a digitized oral history project (Jeffco Stories)
University of Denver (Digital Commons)
The archived copy opens a snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, preserved for when the original moves or disappears.
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