Webinars
Watch live or catch up on demand. Join the AM team and guest presenters explore issues and discuss topics related to universities, libraries and archives.
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Successfully migrating digital collections: three institutions share their experiences of achieving their migration objectives
Wednesday 17 January 2024 | 9:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT
Your migration to a new digital collections platform demands a flexible, customer-led approach from your platform provider’s support team. Join this panel discussion to hear the experiences of Rice University, the University of Portland and Durham County Library, all of which have recently undertaken this transformative journey with AM Quartex.
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Torture, State Violence and Political Prisoners: Exploring the Global Human Rights Movement through the Amnesty International Archives
Tuesday 12 December | 2pm ET
Find out how our Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights collection can be used in teaching and research
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Discover AM Quartex: how public libraries are building community around local heritage collections
Join us to learn how public and state libraries are using AM Quartex to build digital archives that capture attention, excite and inspire, and provide a sustainable, centralised hub for community recollection.
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DAM and digital preservation systems: a new partnership to address preservation and presentation of your digital collections
Learn how Preservica’s Active Digital Preservation technology and AM Quartex, a digital asset management system and website creation tool, allow users to effortlessly preserve digitised assets and metadata to prevent future loss and degradation; and seamlessly surface these materials in a visually dynamic and accessible digital collections website.
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Comparing digitised First Folios: how new image viewer technology in Quartex is creating unprecedented research opportunities
Central to the concept of First Folios Compared is the creation of new ways in which to examine and compare digitised materials, using new image viewer capabilities in AM Quartex. Join us to see these capabilities in action, and explore ways in which they can support your research communities in making new discoveries and interpretations from digitised resources.
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Hidden in the archives: uncovering new perspectives with HTR
AI-driven HTR, available in the digital collections platform AM Quartex, has the power to take scholars beyond face value, biases and accepted interpretations, to unearth hidden perspectives and greater understanding of a broader range of experiences. Join us to experience the transformational power of HTR.
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Migration simplified: discover our customer-led approach to migrating your digital collections
Your migration to a new digital collections platform should be as easy and enjoyable as possible, and led by you. Join us to learn more about our simplified and customer-first approach to migrating your digital collections.
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Uncovering archival materials in AM’s Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
This webinar, with AM partners CHOICE, delves into how researchers can use archival materials to better understand the impact and response to European colonialism in Africa using the newly-published database Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
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Embedding accessibility into digital collections
Digital access by today’s definition means more than simply making digital copies of physical materials available online. Join us to hear from two academic libraries that have placed accessibility front and centre of their digital open access programs, and how AM's UX team is using real world insights to improve accessibility within Quartex and our own digital primary source collections.
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Discover AM Quartex: our easy to use and quick to implement digital asset management system
Aerin Bowers shows how AM Quartex is transforming teaching and research for Canadian institutions using the system to create and showcase digital collections.
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From whalemen to pirates: researching everyday life at sea through primary sources
Find out how faculty utilised maritime collections and primary source databases to research everyday life at sea
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Discover AM Quartex: our easy to use and quick to implement digital asset management system
AM Quartex is transforming the ways in which researchers find and explore digitised archival materials. Discover how in this introductory webinar.
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AM collections: discover what's publishing in 2023 (Part two)
Join members of AM's Editorial team in the second installment of our two-part webinar, as they explore the exciting new range of collections publishing in 2023.
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AM collections: discover what's publishing in 2023 (Part one)
Join members of AM's Editorial team in the first of our two-part webinar, as they explore the exciting new range of collections publishing in 2023.
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Showcasing digital collections: How to create destination websites
Learn how to use Quartex's website creation tool to present your materials to your user community in meaningful and exciting ways.
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Developing effective and efficient workflows in AM Quartex
Learn how Quartex eases digital asset management, simplifies workflows and enables teams to effortlessly create beautiful and highly functional digital showcases.
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Presenting oral histories
How institutions are using our technology to present oral histories to broader audiences.
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Stories from Australian archives: digital storytelling tools for discovery and engagement
Learn to tell and amplify the stories in your digital archive with discovery and engagement tools in AM Quartex.
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How to use metadata-related features to create discovery pathways
Sonoma County Library reveals some of the ways in which it uses metadata-related functionality in AM Quartex to promote discovery in its digital archive.
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Unlock your manuscript collections with HTR Transcription
How does HTR Transcription work and how well can it handle different scripts, languages and document types?
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Launches in lockdown: how to remotely build and publish digital collections
How a university and two public libraries built and launched new digital collections during lockdown.
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Enabling browse, search and content discovery
Creating effective access points using AM Quartex to improve search and content discovery.
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Rethink controlled vocabularies
How Mass Observation was built in Quartex and the critical role of Controlled vocabularies in this database.
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Launching a successful digital archives initiative
Key steps your institution should consider to successfully launch a digital archives initiative.