Best Practices

While the DPG is open to learning and exploring a number of technologies, we consider the following technologies to be the main ones we either work with or are starting to work with.

Audio
Developing hardware and software to digitize audio cassettes

Databases
Creating, searching, and displaying content from databases on the web

EAD
Supporting the encoding of finding aids

Imaging
Managing projects that include imaging and scheduling for DIL

MOA2/METS
Working with digital objects

TEI
Encoding and creating tools for encoding text documents

WebGenDB
Capturing metadata (administrative, structural, descriptive), managing the digitization process for image and text-based digitization projects, creating complex digital objects

Websites
Creating and designing websites