The New York Public Library is developing and executing a visionary strategy for digitization, digital preservation, and access. The Library stewards rapidly growing collections of digitized and born-digital collection items, and it works to make these collections easier to discover, sample, use, and reuse in more creative ways.
Learn about the Early Access Viewer below.
Explore our other current and previous projects and learn about our Digital Research Strategy for 2021–2024.
Early Access Viewer (EAVie)
Status: Active
Launched: 2019
Early Access Viewer (EAVie) is a web application that allows research staff to preview and share AMI items that are digitized but not fully described, catalogued, or rights-cleared and are not yet ingested into our repository and available through Digital Collections. EAVie was built to serve minimally-described items to patrons and staff much earlier than is possible with our existing workflows. This means staff can have easier access without the intervention of a production team to deliver access files from digital storage, and staff can then serve those files to patrons.
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