Digital Archival & Media Resources
USC Digital Repository
The USC Digital Repository supplies the following cloud-computing services and will consult with customers to determine which combination best meets their needs:
• Digitization—converting physical or electronic collections to standard digital formats for preservation and online access
• Cataloging—creating metadata that allows users to locate and search digital collections in a consistent, meaningful way
• Preservation—ensuring the long-term accessibility and integrity of digital collections
• Web Access—providing optimal online access to digital collections through high-speed networks and multimedia productions
• File-server access—offering high-quality, high-bandwidth file management capabilities to access, manage, and manipulate large digital collections.
Linda Truong, Operations Manager
USC Digital Repository
3550 Trousdale Pkwy, DML 310
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0183
213-740-9263
lntruong@usc.edu
Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute maintains the largest archive of video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Its mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry—and the suffering they cause—through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies. In addition to providing access to the archive at institutions around the world, the Institute supports scholarship and research in many fields, develops educational products and lessons, and provides training to teachers on the use of testimony in the classroom.
Kim Simon, Interim Executive Director
Shoah Foundation Institute
114 Leavey Library
650 West 35th Street
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089
213-740-6001
kimsimon@usc.edu
West Semitic Research Project
The West Semitic Research Project uses advanced photographic and imaging technologies to document texts and objects from the ancient world. Its archives, accessed electronically via its InscriptiFacts database application, include a wide variety of inscriptional materials, particularly in the languages of Northwest Semitic.
Bruce Zuckerman, Director
West Semitic Research Project
328 Taper Hall
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089
213-740-0270
mlundber@usc.edu