Introduction
In September 2006, the Minnesota Historical Society received a $1 million grant from the Bush Foundation to extend its technological capacity and collaborate with cultural heritage institutions in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota to develop a regional infrastructure called the Great Rivers Network (GRN).
The goal of this project is to expand our capacity to create, manage, preserve and provide access to digital content across county and state boundaries. This portal will allow users to explore the online collections of the GRN partners, facilitating the discovery of diverse resources such as photographs, artifacts, manuscripts, vital records and library catalogs.
Project Documents
- Dec 2009: Partner GRN Site Training Document
- Grant Proposal Narrative
Project Reports
- Dec 2009: Agenda
- Presentation: Partner GRN Sites
- April 2009: Project Meeting - St. Paul, MN
- April 2009: Project Meeting - St. Paul, MN
- June 2008: Project Meeting - St. Paul, MN
- October 2007: Project Meeting - Fargo, ND
- August 2007: Project Meeting - Pierre, SD
- Presentations: Project Overview, Progress Report, IDOL Demo, Data Analysis
- July 2007: Project Meeting - St. Paul, MN
- Presentations: IDOL Demo, Data Analysis, Branding, Collection Survey
- June 2007: Project Meeting - Bismarck, ND
- Presentations - Project Overview, Progress Report, Technology and Application Demonstration
- October 2006:Project Meeting
Technical Documentation
This application was created using SOLR and PHP. The information was pulled into a SOLR index based on the EDAN metadata developed for the Smithsonian Institute. It includes information from a many sources including HTML pages, OAI feeds, MS-SQL databases, MY-SQL databases and more. More information about indexing this data.
The search box will search all information that is displayed about a document but these searches use stemming. You may find some unexpected documents using the search boxes, i.e. searching for "burtness" will return "burt" if typed into the search box. For exact matching use the drop down faceted lists.