Recollection Wisconsin has finalized an updated, simplified set of metadata guidelines for our Content Partners. The new Recollection Wisconsin Metadata Essentials replaces the Wisconsin Heritage Online Metadata Guidelines (last updated 2009) and Wisconsin Heritage Online Quick Guide to Metadata (2010). The biggest change in the new guidelines is that now only four metadata fields are… Read More…
DPLA
Service Hub Charter
In November 2016, our Governing Partners officially adopted a charter. This document affirms each partner’s commitment to access, collaboration, and sustainability of the Recollection Wisconsin Service Hub for the Digital Public Library of America…. Read More…
Wisconsin goes live in DPLA!
Recollection Wisconsin is celebrating today, as digital collections from our partners across the state are now available in the Digital Public Library of America! After three years of collaborative planning and development, Wisconsin’s libraries, archives, historical societies and museums are joining their peers around the country in providing free online access to their digital collections… Read More…
Wisconsin joins the Digital Public Library of America
On August 28, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced that Wisconsin is one of the newest additions to its growing roster of partners. DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives and museums and makes them freely available to the world. Since launching in April 2013, DPLA has aggregated over 11 million… Read More…
DPLAFest
This spring, Hannah Stitzlein, a graduate student in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at UW-Madison, is working on an independent study project with Recollection Wisconsin to evaluate metadata in preparation for our participation in the Digital Public Library of America. Hannah is a distance student living in Ohio. In April, she headed… Read More…
