Startup Showcase: Biblioboard
"It was a creative and critical success," says Davis. "But we really hadn't figured out how to scale it and turn it into a sustainable business. We put all of our learning from that project into BiblioBoard."
With the subsequent launch of BiblioBoard Creator, a free authoring tool, the company has lowered the cost and infrastructure barriers to turning rich historical information into curated collections. "We're talking to some publishers," says Davis, "but we're mostly focusing on libraries, museums, historical societies and associations—anyone who has digitized historical objects that maybe they're making available on the web in some kind of older-school way but who don't really have the budget nor the will, honestly, to do the tech project management to build native apps to distribute content on devices."
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