We are thrilled to be working with the Washington Island museums this spring as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! Their project includes photographing and digitizing materials held by the Jacobsens Museum, part of the Town of Washington Museums group. This includes boat models (schooners) built by Jens Jacobsen (1867-1952) in the late 1800s,… Read More…
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New in Recollection Wisconsin
This quarter, we welcome the Eagle River Historical Society as our newest content partner! The Eagle River Historical Society / Craig Moore Research Library collection consists of several thousand images of the Eagle River area from approximately 1880 to 2000. A number of these images come from photographs taken by residents, tourists, and local photography… Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin 2024 Year in Review
As we reflect on 2024, it’s clear that this year has been one of growth, collaboration, and forward momentum for Recollection Wisconsin. We’ve not only maintained our work but expanded into new and impactful initiatives. Together with the Recollection Wisconsin community, we’ve made strides toward preserving and sharing Wisconsin’s unique cultural heritage in innovative ways…. Read More…
Meet Team Milwaukee Art Museum
We are thrilled to be working with the Milwaukee Art Museum this spring as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! Their project focuses on digitizing, creating descriptive information for and providing public access to materials from the Brooks Stevens Archive, one of several special Museum Collection archives acquired from the Stevens family in 1997…. Read More…
Spring Cohort Begins Digitization Work
Our Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative spring cohort commenced last week with a 3-hour virtual training event. Participants learned more about Recollection Wisconsin, the Digital Public Library of America and WiLS. Recollection Wisconsin staff presented key digitization best practices and shared knowledge, tools and resources to support students’ scanning, metadata creation, folder- and file-naming and organization schemes, digital preservation, and creating project… Read More…
Four Historic Wisconsin Businesses
by Jacqueline Steel, UW-Madison iSchool In fall 2024, I worked collaboratively with the Eagle River Historical Society and the Nicolet Federated Library System staff to digitize and describe a collection of materials that document historical resorts and supper clubs primarily in northern Wisconsin. Working with ERHS director Vito Bortolotti and NFLS director Tracy Vreeke, I… Read More…
Digital Curation With the Hoocąk Waaziija Haci Language Division (Ho-Chunk Nation)
by Kierstin Wagner, UW-Milwaukee SOIS This semester, I have had the pleasure of working with the Hoocąk Waaziija Haci Language Division (Ho-Chunk Nation) to organize, preserve, and provide access to decades of invaluable language-learning materials. My work with the language collections spanned three phases. The first phase involved inventorying and organizing the materials. Since 2017,… Read More…
Digitizing a Community Newspaper: Tips, Tricks, and How to Make Meaning Out of Metadata
by Julia Lalor, UW-Madison iSchool (’24) When I first set out to digitize copies of the community newspaper the Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter, I was somewhat skeptical of the impact that this project would have. I took the Edgerton Public Library at its word that digital copies of this newspaper would benefit researchers, but from the… Read More…
Meet Our Spring 2025 Cohort!
We are excited to announce our next Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative cohort starting in January 2025. This initiative brings together Wisconsin content partners and information school graduate students to create new digital collections. Content partners will choose collections to digitize, and student staff will handle the digitization and metadata work as part of a paid… Read More…
New in Recollection Wisconsin for Fall 2024
This quarter, we welcomed two new content partners into the Recollection Wisconsin community! The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Archives collection includes newsletters from the 70s through 2011 as well as Parade of Homes Plan Books from 1953 through 1990. The Milwaukee County Historical Society’s digital collection documents the history of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County from the 1890s… Read More…
