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…
Digitization
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…
Digitization Initiative Begins!
On September 4th, we kicked off the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative with a 3-hour virtual training session with students, host site supervisors and WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin staff. Over the course of the afternoon, participants learned more about Recollection Wisconsin, the Digital Public Library of America and WiLS. Recollection Wisconsin staff presented key digitization best… Read More…
