"Provenance - The origin or source of something" - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology, Society of American Archivists
The modern researcher spends most of their time in archives and special collections photographing historical documents as opposed to reading them. Although the ability to photograph materials on their own devices saves time, it can be hard for researchers to keep track of where those documents came from - a necessary component when writing acurate scholarly citations.
The Android app Provenance aims to allow researchers to take images of archival materials while simultaneously attaching collection metadata to them so that researchers can easily manage their images and correctly cite materials when publishing their research.
Provenance Slides - with app images
To install this project, download Android Studio:
- Go to: https://developer.android.com/studio
- Click “Download Android Studio”
- Once download is complete, a pop up window will appear. Move Android Studio icon to the Application folder
- Go to Applications folder and open Android Studio
- You will see a verification pop-up, click “Open”
- Another pop up window will appear, choose “Do not import settings” then click “OK”
- Android Studio Setup Wizard will open, click “Next”
- Select “Standard” for type of setup and click “Next”
- Select either Dracula or Light UI Theme then click “Next”
- Click “Finish”
- Setup Wizard will download components
- While downloading components, may ask user for password for HAXM Installer, follow prompts to allow HAXM installer
- Once components are downloaded, click “Finish”
You may also need to download Download Java Development Kit 13, if Android Studio does not download it for you: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
- Firebase Cloud Storage (for more information, visit: https://firebase.google.com/products/storage/)
- Firebase Realtime Database (for more information, visit: https://firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database/)
- Android CameraX API version 1.0.0-alpha06 (for more information, visit: https://developer.android.com/training/camerax)
- Picasso image download & caching library (for more information, visit: https://square.github.io/picasso/)
Excerpt from [The Raven]: And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting - still is sitting..., circa 1846, Edgar Allan Poe Collection, Box 1, Folder 12, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- Grand Council Exclusive Order of Guinea Pigs certificate, 1946, Beth Flippen Scheel papers, Box 1, Hoover Institution Archives
- Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Arthur Garfield Learned, undated, Edgar Allan Poe Art Collection, Box 426, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter, 1847 February 14, Edgar Allan Poe Collection, Box 1, Folder 14, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- Photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, undated, Bertram David Wolfe papers, Envelope X, Hoover Institution Archives
Speacial thanks to Sarah Patton and Rachel Bauer, Sally DeBauche, and Justyna Szulc-Maziarz for their support and help in obtaining digital copies of images from Hoover Institution Archives.
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