Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The situation

The Wilson Center in Washington, DC, is a policy research institution. Its history projects gather documents from archives around the world and make them available to scholars. The Center also runs fellowships, scholarships, events and publications. Both sides of that work needed systems built for them.

What we built and maintained

• A digital archive for the Cold War International History Project and two related projects on North Korean and nuclear proliferation history. We built the first phase of the archive.
• A contributor and translation portal for adding documents to the archive and translating them.
• The Center's Data Manager, one system for fellowships, scholarships, events, publications and contacts, including mass email, which we maintained and improved.

Scholars could find the historical documents online, and staff managed fellows, events and contacts in one system.

Keeping it running

We maintained the Data Manager for several years and supported the digital archive after its launch.

Why it matters

At the Wilson Center, one team built the archive that researchers used and kept the staff's fellowships and events system running.

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