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.
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
Blecksmith, Anne. "Visual resources online." College & Research Libraries News 69, no. 5 (May 2008): 275-278.
Downer, Sherida, Sue Medina, Beth Nicol, and Aaron
Trehub. "AlabamaMosaic: Sharing Alabama History Online." Library Hi
Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 233-251.
Blecksmith, Anne. "Visual resources online." College & Research Libraries News 69, no. 5 (May 2008): 275-278.
Schmidt, Ford. "Calisphere." College & Research Libraries News 70, no. 1 (January 2009): 58-59.
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://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/952/873.
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.
Alliance Digital Repository (Colorado Association Research Libraries)
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/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/764/673/.
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.
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://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/viewArticle/141/139.
Woodward, Walter W., and Roy Rozenzweig. "Web Sites Reviews." Journal of American History 92, no. 4 (March 2006): 1534-1535.
WRLC Libraries Digital and
Special Collections
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 (4 May
2004). Available from: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1139/1059.
Erich is the second speaker.
Columbia River
Basin Ethnic History Archive
Illinois
Schlumpf, Kay, and Rob Zschernitz. "Weaving the Past into the Present by Digitizing Local History." Computers in Libraries 27 (March 2007): 10-14.
Upper Mississippi Valley
Digital Image Archive [Iowa/Illinois border]
Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
Upper Mississippi Valley
Digital Image Archive [Iowa/Illinois border]
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.
Dyer, Ellen. Maine Memory Network: The Challenges of Digital Collaboration [online]. NEA Newsletter 30, no. 4 (October 2003). Available from: http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/pdfs/NEA_Newsletter_October2003.pdf.
Mercier, Laurie. Review of Maine Memory Network. Journal of American History (March 2004). Available online: http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url= http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/90.4/wr_4.html.
Lutz, Marilyn and Laura Gallucci. “The Maine Music Box.” First Monday 10, no. 6 (June 2005). Available from: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1251/1171.
Lutz, Marilyn. “The Maine Music Box: A Pilot Project to Create a Digital Music Library.” Library Hi Tech 22, no. 3 (2004): 283-294.
Windows on Maine [Video On Demand]
Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage
Massachusetts Digital
Commonwealth
Northeast Massachusetts Digital Library
Jones, Ruth Ann. "Empowerment for digitization: lessons learned from
The Making of Modern Michigan." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2
(2005): 205-219.
Minnesota
Digital Library Coalition. Wisconsin Digital Library Conference, March
24, 2004. Available
from: http://www.wils.wisc.edu/events/dgtdev/digit04/present/mdlc.ppt.
Nevada Statewide Digital Advisory Committee and the Nevada State Library and Archives. Nevada Statewide Digital Plan. June 4, 2009. Available from: http://nevadaculture.org/nsla/dmdocuments/NV_Statewide_Dig_plan_060509FINAL.pdf
Jeng, Judy. "Evaluation of the New Jersey Digital Highway." Information Technology & Libraries 27, no. 4 (December 2008): 17-24.
Rogers, Michael. "New Jersey Libraries Team Up for Statewide Digital Highway." Library Journal 129, no. 2 (February 2004): 27-28.
North Carolina 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.
Hicks, Emily A., Jody Perkins, and Margaret Beecher Maurer. "Application Profile Development for Consortial Digital Libraries." Library Resources & Technical Services 51, no. 2 (April 2007): 116-131.
Gemmill, Laurie, Angela O'Neal. "Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook: Creating
a Statewide Digital Library." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2
(2005): 172-86.
Rosenzweig, Roy. "Web Site Reviews." Journal of American History 90, no. 3 (December 2003): 1148-1153.
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive
Wykoff, Leslie, Laurie Mercier, Trever Bond and Alan Cornish. “The Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive: A tri-state online history database and learning center.” Library Hi Tech 23, no. 2 (2005): 252-264.
Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository
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/.
Mihalega, Anna Maria, and Edward A. Galloway. "Your Collection Is Online and the Honeymoon's Over: NOW WHAT?." Computers in Libraries 23, no. 6 (June 2003): 26-29.
Shaw, Elizabeth J. "Building A Digital Library: A Technology Manager's Point of View." Journal of Academic Librarianship 26, no. 6 (November 2000): 394-398.
South Carolina Digital Library
Digital Library of South Dakota
Carlson, Scott. "Texas Universities Create a Digital Library for Scholars and the Public." Chronicle of Higher Education 51, no. 47 (July 29, 2005): A35.
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.
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.
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive
Washington State Digital
Libraries Portal
The Wisconsin
Digital Library Conference [March 24, 2004]
Powerpoint presentations include "UW's Digital Future" and "Collaboration
in Central Wisconsin."
- Digital Library of Appalachia [Appalachia]
- Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive [Northwest]
- AmericanSouth.org; Also see http://docsouth.unc.edu/ [Southeast]
- Western Trails [Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming]
- Mountain West Digital Library [Nevada, Utah]
- ARL Digital Initiatives Database
- Business Planning for Cultural Heritage Institutions [Liz Bishoff and Nancy Allen, 2004]
- DigiStates Discussion List
- Digital Best Practices [Washington State Library]
- Digital Library Federation
- Digitization & Preservation Resources (OCLC)
- Digital & Preservation Services (BCR)
- D-Lib Magazine
- Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
- NINCH Guide to Good Practice in Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
- North American Collections: U.S. [David Mattison]
Thanks to Ken Middleton at the Middle Tennessee State University Library for creating the original version of this resource.
