Seeds of Change: The Evolution of Post-War Eastern North Carolina
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The project, "Seeds of Change: the Evolution of Post-War Eastern North Carolina," will build on the current East Carolina University (ECU) J. Y. Joyner Library digital collections (http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/) to mount images from a collection of photographic negatives donated to Joyner Library from The Daily Reflector, a Greenville, North Carolina-based newspaper. This collection contains images taken by The Daily Reflector between ca. 1920s, with the bulk falling into the years 1947 and 1967, and represents a period of dramatic social and economic change in eastern North Carolina. The project will utilize the skills and experience gained from developing the "Eastern North Carolina Digital Library" (ENCDL) and other digitization projects to capture images and create an interface that will present the collection in an environment that is accessible and appropriate for academic researchers, novice users and school systems. "Seeds of Change" will display 2,000 digitized images selected to represent the trends and changes that impacted the social and economic fabric of the eastern region of North Carolina during this period of major change. Extensive contextualization will be applied to the selected materials to identify their relevance to the trends and changes of the time period. The selected images, along with accompanying metadata, will be ingested into the library's current digital object repository allowing them to be cross-collection searchable and available through the online EAD finding aid. The digital objects will then be drawn from the repository to create the web project, which will include navigation via theme/subject/date, zoom-able image interface, and robust metadata and full-text searching capabilities. In addition, this collection will conform to OAI-PHM standards to allow harvesting entities access to this material.
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