Creating a Project

Use a Desktop Computer

To create your project, you will need to use a desktop computer or a tablet. Currently, mobile screens are not optimized for annotations.

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Login to your Account

To create your project, you first need to create an account on Americana and log in. If you are not logged in, the website will prompt you to do so.

See Creating your Americana Account

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Add an Item to a Project

Starting a new project or adding to an existing one can be done the same way. All you have to do is click on the Add to Project button located in the lower right corner of the screen.

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Select or Create a New Project

A small menu will appear, asking to which project you want to add the item. You can create a new project right there!

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Workspace

Once you have added your first item to a project, click on link to your own Workspace in the upper right corner of the screen.

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My Projects

In your workspace, you can view all the projects that you own or have been invited to collaborate on. You can delete the projects you created or remove yourself from projects you were collaborating on. However, note that you cannot delete projects that you do not own!

Be careful about deleting projects: once they are deleted, they cannot be recovered.

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Project Editor

Click on your new project to open the project editor. There are many things you can do with your project, but first, we can add users to collaborate with you.

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Invite Collaborators

Americana was imagined as a powerful tool for collaboration. You can create projects with your teachers, students, colleagues and friends. To do add a collaborator to your project, click on the ⊕ button on the right of the screen.

You can add the email of as many collaborators as you need. They will be able to add new items to the project, to annotate any object, and to delete their own items/annotations.

Now, let's add more items to this project!

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Adding Items from the Search Results Page

You can also add items to your Project by hovering the mouse on a book, and clicking on the ⊕ button that appears in the upper left corner. Note: you can only add an object once.

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Not Digitized, yet? No problem!

You can add both digitized and non-digitized items to your projects. Americana's digital architecture was designed to automatically display newly digitized items in your project as soon as the digital images are added!

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