Enabling motivated individuals and organizations to preserve, curate, enrich and disseminate their portion of humanity’s digital knowledge assets.
In the ever-shifting landscape of digital information, few thing have staying power. Even the things that stick must constantly change to avoid technical obsolescence. MediaShelf makes it possible to rescue the worthwhile content from this easy come/easy go scenario by providing ways to collect, curate, disseminate and preserve anything digital — from photographs and blogs to giant scientific datasets. These solutions combine tools for managing, annotating and arranging assets together with tools for building searchable, SEO-optimized views of your collections. Underneath all of this, we use best of breed archival technologies and practices in order to preserve your collections and the information about them for the long term.
MediaShelf are a youthful, energetic team of software developers and user experience designers. We have a strong group of supporting advisors from business, technical and legal backgrounds as well as a talented pool of specialists who pitch in on everything from code iterations to system administration.
We have been leading experts on Fedora Commons Repositories since 2006 and are the technical leads for the Hydra Project.
Our head office is in Minneapolis, but we have outposts in Paris, France and London, England.
Matthew Zumwalt: Founder and CEO
This crazy redhead from Minnesota is the reason MediaShelf came into being.
Constantly brimming with madcap ideas, Matt’s friends talk him down time and again. But this one sounded like it might just work… And so it began. Read Matt’s profile.
Edwin Shin: CTO
After five years working with the Fedora development team, Eddie joined MediaShelf to help us achieve our goals of enabling institutions to use Fedora as the ideal archiving solution. Read Eddie’s profile.
Louise Santa Ana: Brand and UX
Louise is passionate about both sides of the online equation. Companies, individuals and organisations need a clear voice to communicate their message while consumers, readers and researchers should find what they want easily and enjoyable. Read Louise’s profile.