The winners: 2008 Best Archives on the Web Awards

Yes, the votes have been tallied, and it’s time to announce the winners of the first annual Best Archives on the Web Awards. This week each category will get its own post, spotlighting the winners and what them made stand out.

Best Use of Web 2.0 Technologies

• Winner: “A View To Hugh: Processing the Hugh Morton Photographs and Films,” North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Honorable Mention: The Library of Congress on Flickr, The Library of Congress.

Best Online Archival Exhibition

• Winner: “Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books,” The University of Alabama, University Libraries and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.
• Honorable Mention: “Crafting the Oregon Constitution,” Oregon State Archives.
• Honorable Mention: “Sounds and Stories: The Musical Life of Maryland’s African American Communities,” Archives of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.

Best Total Web Experience

• Winner: The National Archives of the United Kingdom.
• Honorable Mention: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
• Honorable Mention: The Wisconsin Historical Society.
• Honorable Mention: Archives Division, Ulster County Clerk, Ulster County, New York.

Thanks to everyone who sent in nominations and gave us such a competitive group to consider. Special thanks to the rest of the judges: Terry Baxter, Christine Di Bella, Jim Gerencser, and Amy C. Schindler.

7 Comments

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  By jordon, February 25, 2008 @ 7:36 am

  Thanks for arranging this, Kate. There are some great ideas on these pages. I love the Hugh Morton blog.

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  By Cynthia Watanabe, March 14, 2009 @ 9:32 am

  This is a great idea! I wish I had thought of it a couple of years ago. For an independent project for my MLIS, I evaluated a small set of state archives’ websites. I’m wondering what criteria did you use to evaluate the nominations for best archives websites?

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