Libraries abroad: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will go digital

Endeca Technologies Inc., a Cambridge–based search applications company (Massachusetts, USA), said that it has been selected by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation to “provide the software and technical assistance that will provide website users with a robust search engine experience when accessing the nation’s first online digitized presidential archives”.

The digital archives will launch on January 20, 2011, the 50^th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration as the 35^th President of the United States, Endeca said in a press release.  

“The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the first among American Presidential Libraries not “born digital” to undertake the creation of the digital library”, the release added. “Of the 13 presidential libraries in existence today, only President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush’s contain born-digital materials.”