The following series of PowerPoint presentations demonstrate the power and flexibility of the Eloquent Archives application. There are two options for viewing:
Streaming Video, which immediately starts to play in your browser, is the easiest to use and works well with recent versions of Internet Explorer as well as some other browsers.
Video Download, which takes some time to download depending upon your line speed, can be saved on your hard drive to play at your convenience. It is delivered as an .exe that requires no other software to run.
New presentations will be added and the existing ones will be modified as the software is upgraded, so return from time to time to see more.
Please, enjoy!
Reference Services - Public Access
This presentation takes you into the public databases for a number of institutions, ranging from very small not-for-profit institutions to the holdings of large cities, states, provinces and universities. You will see interesting photographs protected with watermarks, HTML tree indexes, and the meshing of historical sites with Google Maps. It also discusses the other aspects of the total reference service function.
With current Web technology many users can contribute to a database of archival holdings from anywhere on the Internet at the same time. The data can be distributed over several servers anywhere on the Internet. Researchers are navigating from one to another without realizing it. Even the smallest archival institution can tap into this technology and get world-wide visibility for their archival holdings. This presentation shows you how.
Many institutions spend so much time on the clerical and administrative activities related to managing boxes and other physical items that they lack time for supporting researchers. This presentation shows how an integrated software package can free up that time; making it available for more important professional duties.
This video shows how institutions like the ones featured in our first presentation used Eloquent Archives software to quickly make their holdings available for public viewing. It also shows how it becomes the core database for all their business functions: accessioning, reference services, tracking and space management.
