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Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James
Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James
Rose Fortier
The Gothic Archive is the flagship digital humanities project for the Marquette University library. The project was birthed from a simple digital collection, and through the partnership of faculty and librarians, was transformed into something more. The core tenets of digital collection creation were adhered to in order to create a solid foundation upon which to build the Archive. The expertise of both groups and communication were key in the evolution of the collection, and in discovering and highlighting the relationships between the objects. This case study reviews the steps Marquette took in creating the collection and taking it to …
Staff Sourcing For Digitization, Rose Fortier
Staff Sourcing For Digitization, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
A session detailing the outsourcing of metadata creation for digitization to reference staff members at the Milwaukee Public Library in order to expedite the creation of digital collections.
Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Rose Fortier
An exploration of collaboration between institutions for the creation of digital collections using CONTENTdm. Wisconsin Heritage Online and the Milwaukee Public Library reveal how they were able to enter into a partnership to host digital collections from smaller institutions who would not be able to afford to purchase or subscribe CONTENTdm on their own.
The Milwaukee Public Library's Digital Projects: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digital Collections, Rose Fortier
The Milwaukee Public Library's Digital Projects: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digital Collections, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
Part of a series of presentations given at a panel discussion at the 2011 WAPL conference. The panel was called "Adventures in Digitization: Digital Collections" and included digitization efforts from six different public libraries of varying sizes. Panel members who had worked with public libraries of various sizes discussed their experiences in creating digital collections, including the successful implementation of digitization procedures and how they were able to overcome obstacles. This presentation covers experiences and collections from the Milwaukee Public Library
Virtual Memories: Organizing And Digitizing Your Photos, Rose Fortier
Virtual Memories: Organizing And Digitizing Your Photos, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
A presentation given at a Milwaukee Public Library program on organizing and digitizing personal photos. Patrons were given information on scanning, photo editing, and sharing photo for the creation of personal digital collections.