GLAMGear is the name chosen for an integrated, low cost, open source digitization tool kit and workflow for the global south and underserved area. The project has obtained funding after recently winning the Scholarship and Collaboration in Humanities and Arts Research (SCHARP) Breakthrough Award given by the University of Connecticut (Uconn) and is led by Professor Mark Healey from the Department of History of Uconn. The co-PI on the award is Tom Scheinfeldt, Professor of Digital Media and Design. The team is made up of researchers from Connecticut, Buenos Aires and Mendoza and the job is to develop, document and evaluate heritage digitization resources to make up the GLAMGear kit.
The purpose of the kit is to provide an alternative to GLAM institutions (such as museums, archives or libraries) that cannot cope with the high costs involved in purchasing commercial digitizing equipment. Mark has observed that this lack occurs both in organizations in countries of the Global South such as Argentina, but also in underserved areas of the United States. The package could include stands, hardware, software, guides or technical documentation that allows organizations to carry out an efficient workflow in the digitization of cultural heritage with professional quality standards. The hardware, software and documentation resources used or developed by Bibliohack in these years constitute the starting point of the kit.
The team is made up of Matías Butelman and Juan Suárez from Bibliohack (Buenos Aires), Facundo D. Martín (Researcher at Conicet, Mendoza), and Tom Scheinfeldt, Greg Colati, Michael Kemezis and Mark Healey from UCONN.
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