History on the Web / L’Histoire sur la toile

Abstract

Have you ever sat at your computer, looking at a long list of records held at a place like Library and Archives Canada, the British Library, or the Library of Congress, right-clicking and downloading each record by painstaking record? Or have you ever had a fascinating collection of primary documents that you would love tomake a digital exhibit of, but don’t know where to start? What about a massive array of text documents, downloaded from an archive or digitized by a graduate student, that is so big that you put it off for,well, ever, due to its sheer size?Well, there are tools for that.