The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress recently launched Viewshare.org. Viewshare is a free, open-source platform that empowers librarians, archivists, scholars, and curators
to create maps, timelines, tag clouds, and other web interfaces for their digital collections. Supporting multiple metadata upload options, and featuring data augmentation tools such as geocoding and ISO 8601 date conversion, Viewshare provides an free, intuitive
tool for building and sharing customized, interactive views of cultural heritage digital collections.
The full announcement can be viewed on the Library’s Digital Preservation blog at
http://1.usa.gov/snqNHc and you can also visit
http://viewshare.org to find out more information and to request an account.
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