Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:07:34 -0600 From: Debbie Cardinal <cardinal@wils.wisc.edu> Subject: WHO News, November 2008, #11 Message-id: <11CA617B701B44C7B46E62B2904B68DE@OCLCA>
<http://wiheritage.pbwiki.com/> Wisconsin Heritage Online News
November 2008, #11
CONTENTS
News of the Day
Featured Collections
Project News
WHO Resources Wiki
Events to Note
News of the Day
Wisconsin Heritage Online is continuing to grow!
As of November 2008, <http://wisconsinheritage.org/> Wisconsin Heritage
Online has 43,342 in 37 collections. This month, University of Wisconsin
DoIT staff harvested two collections from Milwaukee Public Library and
one from Lawrence University. There are new collections and material
added from the University of Wisconsin and the State of Wisconsin
collections at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections too.
Check out the Featured Collections below for more information.
Featured Collections
Kenosha County History: Images and Texts, 1830s-1940s
Market Square - July Fourth, 1875
<http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/subcollections/KenoshaLocHistAbout.h
tml> Kenosha County History: Images and Texts, 1830s-1940s. This digital
collection includes materials covering the history of Kenosha County,
which is situated in the most southeastern part of Wisconsin adjoining
the Illinois State border. In 1830, Kenosha County was a remote corner
of the largely unsettled Michigan Territory. Beginning in 1835 settlers
arrived from New York and New England, making Kenosha County and City
the southernmost settlement in the state. From 1835 through the 1880s
the region's main commercial activity was agriculture. In the 1870s the
County and City barely survived a local depression, which stifled
industrial growth. By 1890 industrial expansion had greatly improved in
the City and County with continued growth until the Great Depression of
the 1930s.
Lawrence University Archives Digital Collection
The Lawrence
<http://www.lawrence.edu/Library/contentdm/archives/index.html>
University Archives Digital Collections document the history of Lawrence
University and Milwaukee-Downer College, the latter an all
women’s college that consolidated with Lawrence in 1964.
Digitized items were chosen based on their condition, frequency of use
of their physical formats, and their representation of the history of
the two colleges.
Many of the photographs in the collection are unidentified. If you know
the names of the people in any of the photographs, please contact
<http://www.lawrence.edu/Library/archives/askarch.shtml> the University
Archivist.
Collections within the collection contain items from the papers of
university presidents, Milwaukee-Downer College, the Conservatory of
Music, and other historical material.
UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph Collection
The <http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/LaCrosseSteamboat> UW-La
Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph collection consists of over 40,000
black and white photographic images of steamboats on the inland
waterways of the United States, primarily the Mississippi, Ohio and
Missouri rivers and their tributaries. The photos depict steamboats in
every phase of their life span, in every aspect of their daily
operations from the 1850s to the present, and in all sorts of settings
as they went about their everyday business of hauling freight and
passengers and towing barges and rafts.
Besides steamboats, other types of images in the collection include
steamboat captains, engineers, pilots, passengers and crews; city and
town waterfronts; levees; locks and dams; and river-related activities
such as fishing, swimming and clamming. The digitized collection now has
over 3,500 images online.
Milwaukee Public Library Waterways
The <http://www.mpl.org/file/digital_waterways_index.htm> Milwaukee
Public Library Waterways collection illustrates the role Lake Michigan
and Milwaukee's rivers have played in the history of Milwaukee. Pictures
of the harbor and ships from around the world loading and unloading
materials show the variety of materials that passed through the Port
over time. Other pictures illustrate the role the rivers played in the
commercial development of the city. Aerial views of the harbor and
rivers and lakefront show the changing uses of the water and land.
Milwaukee Public Library Historic Photos
The Milwaukee <http://www.mpl.org/file/digital_historicphoto_index.htm>
Public Library Historic Photos collection represents the start of the
process of making historic photos of Milwaukee available to the public
online. The photos from this collection are pulled from the Milwaukee
Public Library’s historic photograph collection. The entire
collection includes over 50,000 photographs of Milwaukee dating from the
late 19th century to present day. The current digital collection is only
a small fraction of the total available photos, but is growing all the
time, so stop back to see what new images become available.
Project News
Wisconsin Historical Society hosted CONTENTdm projects
There are currently three separate institutions working on CONTENTdm
WHS-hosted projects. One of them is a historical society, two are
museums. All three are working slowly, but expect to make their
collections public before mid-2009. A fourth group has begun planning
for another project within their collection space.
If you are interested in using the Wisconsin Historical
Society’s digital collection software, CONTENTdm, for your
organization’s digitized collections, contact Debbie Cardinal to
learn more about it.
If you are using OAI-compliant digital collection software and your
collection is web-accessible, we can harvest your collection metadata
into the Wisconsin Heritage Online statewide portal. Contact Debbie
Cardinal <mailto:cardinal@wils.wisc.edu> .
Wisconsin Heritage Online Project Resources Wiki News
Important! Wisconsin Heritage Online Project Resources wiki is a private
wiki now!
Your institution must have a paid membership in Wisconsin Heritage
Online for access to the wiki.
Go to the wiki, <https://wiheritage.pbwiki.com/> click on the Request
Access link on the right. When we get your request we will verify your
institution’s paid WHO membership and approve access to the
wiki. One paid membership will allow multiple people to access the wiki.
WHO membership annual fees are either $50 or $100. Your organization
decides what you can afford. (WHO Membership Form
<http://www.wils.wisc.edu/WHO2009.doc> )
Events to Note
Workshops
WHO Digital Imaging Guidelines in Practice: Modeling a Scanning Workflow
This workshop will be held in St. Paul, MN in early spring. Details
later.
Holiday Time!
Enjoy your holidays the next few months!
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