Painless Portal Partnerships: Collaboration and Its Challenges for Small Organizations

Authors

Christine McEvilly, College of Staten IslandFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

This article addresses challenges inherent in collaborative archival projects involving both large institutions and small historical societies. It identifies these unique problems and outlines potential solutions to overcome these issues. Examples are drawn from the Portal to American Jewish History project and contextualized within the professional literature on ethnic or community archives and archival collaboration. This project collected metadata from a wide range of Jewish history archives and aggregated the records in a single searchable website.

Comments

Published in Archival Issues: Journal of the Midwest Archives Conference. Volume 38, Number 2, 2017.