It’s not too late to jump on the bandwagon! Join us for the last Digital Readiness Fair of the summer on August 18, 2021 from 1 – 4:30 pm (CST). Hosted by the Kenosha County Historical Society, this fair will include guest presenter sessions on the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee’s video oral history program and… Read More…
Digitization
Sharing Local History Resources: A Digital Readiness Case Study
You digitized some of your favorite and most engaging materials from your local history collection – now what? Some local history organizations digitize collections to facilitate reference requests or reduce wear and tear on their oldest or most frequently handled materials. Others share images on their organization’s website or social media sites to generate community… Read More…
The Toolkit: Inheriting a Digital Project
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: Help! I inherited my organization’s digitization project and I don’t know where to start! Some of us have the luxury of building a digitization project or program from scratch. Others, though, take on… Read More…
Digital Readiness Fairs: Registration Now Open!
Join Recollection Wisconsin and local history practitioners this summer at one of four virtual Digital Readiness Fairs! These free, half-day events offer a mix of activities and learning opportunities, and showcase digitization work from around the state. Hear from local history practitioners and how they have tackled digitization projects, including challenges, successes, and lessons learned… Read More…
Midwest Archives Conference: Building a Statewide Digital Readiness Community of Practice
Earlier this spring, WiLS staff Vicki Tobias and Kristen Whitson presented at the Midwest Archives Conference annual conference on the Digital Readiness Community of Practice. Joined by Launch Committee members Robin Untz (Lake Mills Aztalan Historical Society) and Janean Mollett Van Beckum (History Center of Washington County), the group shared the project origins and goals,… Read More…
The Toolkit: Content Statements
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: Should my institution include a content warning or statement on our digital collection website? What is a content statement? A content statement is a message on your digital collection website or within your… Read More…
The Toolkit: Digitizing Yearbooks
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: I’d like to digitize my community’s high school yearbooks, but I’m concerned about copyright, harmful content and privacy issues, especially if we add these to our online public collection. Who doesn’t love old… Read More…
The Toolkit: Rights Statements
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: My digital collection is a mix of public domain and in-copyright materials. How will my users know what they can and can’t use? Generally speaking, until recently there haven’t been widely used standards… Read More…
The Toolkit: Buying a Scanner
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: What scanner should I buy? Unfortunately, there is no quick or easy answer. It really depends on individual project goals (and budget constraints!). The options available can be overwhelming – flatbed scanners, overhead… Read More…
The Toolkit: Digitizing Indigenous Materials
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: Our institution has a collection of materials that are related to Indigenous communities of Wisconsin. We are interested in digitizing these materials. How should we go about this? As mentioned in the February… Read More…
