Collaborative Digitization Programs in the United States


This site provides links to ongoing collaborative digitization projects that focus on cultural heritage materials. Articles and documents about specific projects are also noted. Please send suggestions for the improvement of this site to Ken Middleton: kmiddlet@mtsu.edu.


Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | District of Columbia | Florida | Georgia | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | Wyoming -- Regional Projects -- Related Sites



Alabama

AlabamaMosaic

Downer, Sherida, Sue Medina, Beth Nicol, and Aaron Trehub. "AlabamaMosaic: Sharing Alabama History Online." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 233-251.


Alaska

Alaska's Digital Archive


Arizona

Arizona Archives Online

Arizona Memory Project


California

Online Archive of California

Chandler, Robin. Museums in the Online Archive of California (MOAC): Building Digital Collections Across Libraries and Museums [online]. First Monday 7, no. 5 (May 2002). Available from: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_5/chandler/.

Rinehart, Richard. MOAC -- A Report on Integrating Museum and Archive Access in the Online Archive of California using XML [online]. D-Lib Magazine 9, no.1 (Jan 2003). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/rinehart/01rinehart.html.

OAC History provides numerous additional references.


Colorado

Collaborative Digitization Program

Allen, Nancy. Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) [online]. D-Lib Magazine 10, no. 4 (April 2004). Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april04/04featured-collection.html.

Bailey-Hainer, Brenda. Historic Newspaper Digitization [Interview online]. Colorado Matters. Colorado Public Radio, 22 January 2004.
http://www.cpr.org/cgi-bin/comatters/com_day.cgi?date=01/22/2004.

Bishoff, Liz. Interoperability and Standards in a Museum/Library Collaborative: The Colorado Digitization Project [online]. First Monday 5, no. 6 (June 2000). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/bishoff/index.html.

Garrison, William A. Retrieval Issues for the Colorado Digitization Project's Heritage Database [online]. D-Lib Magazine 7, no. 10 (October 2001). Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october01/garrison/10garrison.html.


Connecticut

Connecticut History Online

Foulke, Kathleen, Nancy Milnor, Melissa Watterworth, and Thomas Wilsted. The Power of Partnering: The Cooperative Creation of Digital Collections [online]. Journal of Digital Information 5, no. 3 (2004). Available from: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Foulke/.


District of Columbia

WRLC Libraries Digital and Special Collections


Florida

PALMM: Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials

Caplan, Priscilla. "A PALMM Grows in Florida: The Publication of Archival, Library and Museum Materials Program." Resource Sharing & Information Networks 16, no. 1 (2002): 53-65.

Kesse, Erich. "Ephemeral Cities." RLG DigiNews 8, no. 4 (December 15, 2004). Available from: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20492.

Kesse, Erich. "Ephemeral Cities of Florida" [Video online]. Sharing Digital Resources: Web-Wise 2004. First Monday 9, no. 5 (3 May 2004). Available from: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/.
Erich is the second speaker.


Georgia

Digital Library of Georgia


Idaho

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive


Illinois

Digital Past
Schlumpf, Kay, and Rob Zschernitz. "Weaving the Past into the Present by Digitizing Local History." Computers in Libraries 27 (March 2007): 10-14.

Illinois Digital Archives

Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive [Iowa/Illinois border]


Indiana

Hoosier Heritage

Indiana Memory


Iowa

Iowa Heritage Digital Collections

Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive [Iowa/Illinois border]

Kansas

Western Trails


Kentucky

Kentuckiana Digital Library

Blaser, K. "Kentuckiana Digital Library." Choice 40 (July-August 2003): 1970.

Weig, Eric. The KYVL Kentuckiana Digital Library Project [online]. D-Lib Magazine 8, no. 6 (June 2002). Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june02/weig/06weig.html.


Louisiana

LOUISiana Digital Library


Maine

Maine Memory Network

Dyer, Ellen. Maine Memory Network: The Challenges of Digital Collaboration [online]. NEA Newsletter 30, no. 4 (October 2003). Available from: http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/newsletter/feature_Oct03.html.

Mercier, Laurie. Review of Maine Memory Network. Journal of American History (March 2004). Available online: http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/issues/reviews/904_wr04.shtml.

Maine Music Box

Windows on Maine [Video On Demand]


Maryland

Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage


Massachusetts

Northeast Massachusetts Digital Library

The Digital Commonwealth


Michigan

Making of Modern Michigan

Jones, Ruth Ann. "Empowerment for digitization: lessons learned from The Making of Modern Michigan." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 205-219.


Minnesota

Minnesota Digital Library Project

Minnesota Digital Library Coalition. Wisconsin Digital Library Conference, March 24, 2004. Available from: http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/dgtdev/digit04/present/mdlc.ppt.


Mississippi

Mississippi Digital Library


Missouri

Virtually Missouri


Nebraska

Nebraska Memories

Nebraska Western Trails


Nevada

Mountain West Digital Library


New Jersey

New Jersey Digital Highway


New Mexico

Online Archive of New Mexico


New York

Digital Metro New York

Hudson Valley Heritage


North Carolina

North Carolina ECHO

NC ECHO Newsletter.

Tibbo, Helen R., Kevin Cherry, and Claire Eager. Preservation Metadata for the Real World: The NC ECHO Preservation Metadata Model. In Museums and the Web 2003. Conference proceedings. Archives & Museum Informatics, March 19-22, 2003, Charlotte, North Carolina. Available from: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/papers/tibbo/tibbo.html.

Wisser, Katherine. "Meeting Metadata Challenges in the Consortial Environment: Metadata Coordination for North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 164-71.

------. Museum Metadata in a Collaborative Environment: North Carolina ECHO and the North Carolina Museums Council Metadata Working Group. In Museums and the Web 2004: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics, 2004. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/papers/wisser/wisser.html.


Ohio

Ohio Memory

Gemmill, Laurie, Angela O'Neal. "Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook: Creating a Statewide Digital Library." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 172-86.


Oklahoma

Oklahoma Heritage Online


Oregon

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive


Pennsylvania

Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository

Historic Pittsburgh

Galloway, Edward A. "Imaging Pittsburgh: Creating a shared gateway to digital image collections of the Pittsburgh region" [online]. First Monday 9, no. 5 (3 May 2004). Available from: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_5/.

Pennsylvania History Online


South Carolina

South Carolina Digital Library


South Dakota

South Dakota Memory


Tennessee

Volunteer Voices


Texas

The Portal to Texas History

Hartman, Cathy Nelson, Dreanna Belden, Nancy K Reis, Daniel Gelaw Alemneh, Mark Phillips, and Doug Dunlop. "Development of a Portal to Texas History." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 151-163.

Texas Heritage Online

Texas Tides


Utah

Mountain West Digital Library

Arlitsch, Kenning, and Jeff Jonsson. "Aggregating Distributed Digital Collections in the Mountain West Digital Library with the CONTENTdmTM Multi-site Server." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 220-232.

Arlitsch, Kenning, and Sarah Michalak. Statewide Digital Consortia: Establishing and Sustaining the Mountain West Digital Library [online]. Wisconsin Digital Library Conference, March 24, 2004. Available from: http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/dgtdev/digit04/present/mwdl.ppt.


Virginia

Library of Virginia: Digital Library


Washington

Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive

King County Snapshots

Washington State Digital Libraries Portal


Wisconsin

Great Lakes Maritime History

State of Wisconsin Collection

Wisconsin Heritage Online

The Wisconsin Digital Library Conference [March 24, 2004]
Powerpoint presentations include "UW's Digital Future" and "Collaboration in Central Wisconsin."


Wyoming

Wyoming Memory

Wyoming Western Trails


Regional Projects



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Updated June 13, 2007
Ken Middleton | kmiddlet@mtsu.edu
Reference/Microforms Librarian, Walker Library
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132