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…
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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…
Meet Team Eagle River Historical Society!
We are thrilled to be working with the Eagle River Historical Society and the Nicolet Federated Library System as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative. This project focuses on digitizing and sharing materials that document historic resorts and supper clubs in the Eagle River, Wisconsin area including post cards, brochures, menus and matchbooks. This… Read More…
A Mission and a Vision for Recollection Wisconsin
Recollection Wisconsin has been connecting cultural heritage institutions and their digital materials statewide since 2013, first as Wisconsin Heritage Online and then as Recollection Wisconsin. Although the consortium was founded on and has operated with the ideals of collaboration, service, and access, we’ve not had formal mission and vision statements in that time. One of… Read More…
Meet Team Hoocąk Waaziija Haci (Ho-Chunk) Language Division!
We are thrilled to be working with the Hoocąk Waaziija Haci (Ho-Chunk) Language Division in Tomah, Wisconsin as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative. Their project includes organizing, digitizing, creating descriptive information and preserving their language learning materials, and hosting some materials in Mukurtu, (MOOK-oo-too), a grassroots project aiming to empower Indigenous communities to… Read More…
