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CNI Podcast: Archon - The Simple Archival Information System - An Interview with Chris Prom

Created by Gerry Bayne (EDUCAUSE) on December 19, 2008

This ten minute podcast features an interview with Chris Prom, Assistant University Archivist and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was recorded at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2008 Task Force Meeting. Prom is part of team that developed the Archon software, which was awarded the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration.

Archon is an open source application for archivists and manuscript curators. It automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website. There is no need to encode a finding aid, input a catalog record, or program a stylesheet. Archon's scripts will automatically make everything in the system searchable and browsable on your repository's website.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

 

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