Bespoke system → Omeka
September 11 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive is a pioneering crowdsourced collection documenting the 2001 attacks and their aftermath, and one of the first major digital collections accepted into the Library of Congress. Originally built on an earlier custom platform, the project — with support from a Save America's Treasures grant — migrated to Omeka to place it on stable, sustainable, community-supported open-source infrastructure for the long term. As one of the earliest and most prominent Omeka deployments, it helped demonstrate that the platform could carry a large, media-rich public archive, and remains a landmark example of open-source stewardship of born-digital social history.
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September 11 Digital Archive (RRCHNM)
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