About Wisconsin Heritage Online Project Resources

There are two areas of development in Wisconsin Heritage Online.The purpose of the statewide digital collaborative, Wisconsin Heritage Online, is to bring together (virtually) the digital content of Wisconsin cultural institutions to be easily accessible for all users. A secondary goal is to facilitate the creation of digital content by developing digitization assistance for interested institutions, by providing education and training opportunities. We have a search portal for the users of the virtual collection and a project resources wiki for contributers of the digital content.

Goals of the Wisconsin Heritage Online Search Portal

 

• Content will be accessible from one place
• Content will be adequately indexed
• There will be more content because Wisconsin Heritage Online will have helped cultural institutions to digitize their collections.

The purpose of this WHO Project Resources web site is to share ideas and plans as we develop and to solicit comments and reactions from the community of cultural organizations. General information, best practices, guidelines, and information about copyright, preservation, and content management systems is posted and updated regularly.

Goals of the WHO Project Resources wiki

• Promote use and development of Wisconsin guidelines and practices for digitization
• Provide up-to-date information and educational opportunities for digital content providers
• Encourage discussion and thoughtful continuing development of Wisconsin standards for digitization
• Promote and encourage an active WHO member group, with appreciable advantages for WHO members.

Join WHO

• Participate in this initiative and access the materials on this wiki. Support WHO by filling out the membership form. Find out more about the benefits of WHO membership with this brochure, Why Join?
• Participate by contributing an existing digital collection to WHO. Use the harvesting application form to start the process to add your digital collection. Learn more about how to contribute your collection metadata here, Contribute Your Digital Collection.
• Begin a digital project and have the Wisconsin Historical Society host your collection on their server. Fill out the hosting application. Learn more about how to have  your collection hosted here, Contribute Your Digital Collection.
• Contact Debbie Cardinal or at 608 265-2138.

Considering a digital project? Check these out

• Project Cost Estimation
• Collection Development Policy
• Selection Criteria
• Key Criteria of Digitization Potential

Learn more details about digitization

• Digital Imaging Guidelines (Word) 
• Digital Imaging Guidelines (PDF)
• Digitization/Scanning Glossary
• Metadata Elements
• Recommended Preservation Plan
• Reformatting Resources
• Educational Resources

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