The Self Archiving Legacy Toolkit (SALT) Project within the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), funded by Stanford University President's Fund, completed it’s 3-year startup phase in the Fall of 2009. The SALT Project developed a prototype software system enabling digital online archives of distinguished faculty. The prototype delivered a largely automated, engaging, hosted software toolkit that presented th...
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The Self Archiving Legacy Toolkit (SALT) Project within the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), funded by Stanford University President's Fund, completed it’s 3-year startup phase in the Fall of 2009. The SALT Project developed a prototype software system enabling digital online archives of distinguished faculty. The prototype delivered a largely automated, engaging, hosted software toolkit that presented the faculty member with a visual representation of their legacy for enhancement and, in the process, captured "content and context" to enrich the online material and make it findable. The team solved the problem of getting this material online rapidly while the faculty member is still active and interested in participating, and found that the visual representation of the legacy is the key to elicit valuable new knowledge and meaning: the annotations of connections, the back-story, undocumented facts.
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