Rice University, Fondren Library

The Fondren Library at Rice University, in partnership with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, will develop an innovative approach to helping users search, browse, analyze, and share content from distributed online collections through their “Our Americas Archive Partnership” (OAAP). OAAP will incorporate recent Web 2.0 technologies to help users discover and use relevant source materials in languages other than English and will improve users’ ability to find relevant materials using domain-specific vocabulary searches. Two online collections of materials in English and Spanish, The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA), and a new digital archive of materials to be developed at Rice, will provide an initial corpus for testing the tools.