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Heritage Is New Digital Gateway
to Colorado Culture and History

Heritage, the gateway to the Colorado Digitization Projects (CDP), is now open for business at the CDP Web site: coloradodigital.coalliance.org. Heritage is an online database that makes the state's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums available in digital format. Users can access photos, textual materials, artifacts, costumes, diaries, oral history transcripts, manuscripts and other materials on Colorado's cultural, scientific and historical heritage.

Heritage uses OCLC SiteSearch software and is one of the first databases in the country to incorporate metadata from a wide range of types of libraries, museums, archives and historical societies into one Dublin Core based system, according to Liz Bishoff, CDP director. Links are made to images residing on local institution servers. Users can create records online using the DC Builder software developed by the CDP staff or by sending files from local library systems, local museum databases, etc.

Heritage is also accessible via the Colorado Virtual Library, www.aclin.org, under "Colorado Resources by Group" and "Digital Collections in Colorado."

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Heritage Is New Digital Gateway to Colorado Culture and History

Heritage Is New Digital Gateway
to Colorado Culture and History