The Encyclopedia of Chicago grew out of a book project that was a regional collaboration among the Chicago Historical Society, The Newberry Library and the University of Chicago Press that envisioned an electronic edition of the Encyclopedia from the start of the project comprised of 1,500 text entries plus images.
WGBH Boston uses Fedora for it's moving image archives project. WGBH is developing a custom PHP front end, using the Zend Framework, that communicates with the Fedora repository using MediaShelf's REST interface.
The archive's goal is to "uncover, chronicle, and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish women." The project is utilizing cloud storage to keep the overall costs within their budget.
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