Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory (SAGE) Project

The Woodruff Library at Emory University and the Library and Information Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.5 million dollar grant from a local foundation to create a multimedia "virtual archive." The three-year collaborative effort, the Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory (SAGE) Project, will develop new ways to index digital files and will provide access to archival materials through the World Wide Web (WWW) to the people of Georgia and to students and scholars throughout the world. The SAGE digital archive will be accessible through a WWW site linked to the Georgia Library Learning Online (GALILEO) Web site. In addition, SAGE will share unique archival resources from Emory and Georgia Tech with Georgia schools through interactive CD-ROMs created from the digital archive.

The SAGE Project will focus on two subject areas: the personal and professional life of former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn and selections from several human rights collections. At the Project’s conclusion, thousands of pages of text will be available online in addition to photographs, political cartoons, audio and video. Innovative aspects of the Project include a) developing a technical model for digital archives infrastructures which can be easily replicated by other libraries interested in similar projects and b) producing a searchable digital transcription of selected video and audio recordings using digital speech processing software to provide keyword access to the audiovisual database.

For more information, please see the following:

• Brief description of what has been digitized
• September 1997 Press Release
• Emory University Technical Objectives for the SAGE Project
• Workflow for Creating Digital Objects (including methodology)
• Presentations and Papers about SAGE

Or contact our project managers:

• Naomi Nelson, Project Manager, Emory SAGE
• Grace Agnew, Project Manager, Georgia Tech SAGE

Copyright Emory University--Last updated May 2000