"The Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (VLMA) is an educational tool for collecting and reusing in a structured fashion the online contents of museums and archives with visual components. With VLMA, you can browse and search collections, construct personal collections, export these collections to xml or Impress presentation format, annotate them, and share your collections with other VLMA users."
The Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT) is a free, Web-based system for capturing, archiving and sharing blog posts. Blog posts are acquired via RSS feeds, and stored in a database where they can be accessed and shared by other researchers. Free registration is required.
KORA is an open-source, database-driven, online digital repository application for complex multimedia objects (text, images, audio, video) created by MATRIX. The application ingests, manages, and delivers digital objects with corresponding metadata that enhances the research and educational value of the objects. KORA's flexible architecture can accommodate any metadata scheme allowing for individualized digital collections with differing contents and metadata structures.
Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It also allows users to publish to the internet or CD-ROM. Software interface and documentation available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Kazakh.
Recollection was a platform developed by Zepheira for the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), allowing users to create and share embeddable interfaces to digital cultural heritage collections. The Library of Congress released its latest version of Recollection as Viewshare, built to increase the ease of finding, using, and sharing the project's software.
Recollection incorporates a series of web-based open standards and open source tools, including RDF, Simile Exhibit, Akara, and Django.
Recollection is no longer supported.
The LC Newspaper Viewer is an open-source web application that understands how to model newspaper data created according to a set of technical guidelines, with the goal of publishing an online archive like Chronicling America.
Twapper Keeper lets users create an archive of tweets based on hashtag, keyword, or person, for them to review online. It was created in 2009 as a web application. It seems it is no longer available.
CONTENTdm is digital collection management software that allows for the upload, description, management, and access of digital collections. CONTENTdm is mostly used by libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, universities, corporations, historical societies, and other organizations that wish to host a digital collection.
Collection storage, management, and delivery to users across the web, in any format (e.g., local history archives, newspapers, books, maps, slide libraries, audio, video)
Integrated OCR capability for full-text searching
Support for complex media; import tools and wizards
Controlled vocabulary for consistent, uniform metadata entry
Standards support (e.g., Unicode, Z39.50, Qualified Dublin Core, VRA, XML, JPEG2000, OAI-PMH)
Collection metadata harvesting to WorldCat
Flexible and fully customizable; integration with OCLC products
Website configuration tools and hosting services
Advanced customizations can be made using the CONTENTdm API
Free, 60-day evaluation available by request. CONTENTdm offers multiple licensing options based on collection size.