In an earlier item, I highlighted the Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive project. Today the project team made available a demo version of the archive. According to an announcement that Kim Christen has circulated:
You can test it, upload content, make your own user profile and test out adding restrictions to content etc. We’ve populated the archive with some content already so you can see how the search functions and interface work even without uploading any content yourself.
The demo can be accessed directly at: http://demo.mukurtuarchive.org/ or you can navigate to it from the Mukurtu website (http: www.mukurtuarchive.org) by clicking on the “demo” tab and then clicking on the “go to the online demo” button.
For now, we’d love it if people tested out the archive and gave us feedback.
I look forward to trying it out myself.
In a related development, the project was mentioned favorably in a recent interview of Robert Leopold, Director of the National Anthropological Archives, that has just appeared in the January 2008 issue of Anthropology News.
