BCR's Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP)

BCR’s CDP enables access to cultural, historical and scientific heritage collections of the West by building collaboration between archives, historical societies, libraries and museums. The key to its success is collaboration.

BCR’s CDP provides assistance to the cultural heritage community through best practice guidelines, workshops and digitization grant funding. BCR’s CDP also delivers access to thousands of digital photographs, text, and sound files documenting the history, culture and science of the west through Heritage West.

Originally established as the Colorado Digitization Project in 1999, the CDP later evolved into the Collaborative Digitization Program with its nationally recognized digitization expertise. The CDP merged into BCR in April 2007, creating the BCR’s CDP and the opportunity to build new service programs in the area of digitization and continue to reach out to cultural heritage organizations everywhere.

Background photo: Tena Michelson (driver) and Eva Michelson (backseat) with unknown friend travel the streets of Laramie, Wyoming, in the family’s new automobile, ca. 1910. From the Fee and Murphy Papers at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center. Used with permission.