Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:07:38 -0500 From: Debbie Cardinal <cardinal@wils.wisc.edu> Subject: WHO News #13, October 2009 Message-id: <A26F41DA6B5E45CEA17E1F2A1DDE913F@OCLCA>
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Wisconsin Heritage Online News
October 2009, #13
CONTENTS
News
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Featured
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Project
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WHO
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Wiki
Events
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Featured
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atured_Connections> Connections
News of the Day
WHO is ALA Digital Library of the Week
ALA News
In September, Wisconsin Heritage Online was featured as the Digital
Library of the Week in the American Library Association's American
Libraries Direct e-newsletter. Click the link below and scroll down to
see the article in the right-hand column. The image of "Astronomy in
Milwaukee" comes from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's digital
collection Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean
Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection.
link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=q442672
WHO on Twitter
<https://twitter.com/WiHeritage> twitter.com/WiHeritage
Want instant updates on WHO news? If you use Twitter, you can follow
@WiHeritage. Don't have an account? You don't need one to read our
updates here witter.com/WiHeritage <https://twitter.com/WiHeritage>
Heritage Online General Information Session
If you were unable to attend any of the general information session
about WHO that Emily did in September and October, the South Central
Library System session was recorded. The recording is available at
blip.tv/file/2668687
New Members Since May 2009
Two regional informational sessions and numerous emails and phone calls
have resulted in ten new WHO members signed on since our last issue!
Blanchardville Historical Society
Buffalo County Historical Society, Alma
Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Museums, Milwaukee
Fort Winnebago Surgeons' Quarters, Portage
Hales Corners Historical Society
Portage Historical Society
Preservation Racine, Inc.
Richland County History Room, Richland Center
Sauk County Historical Society, Baraboo
South Wood County Historical Society, Wisconsin Rapids
Featured Collections
Milwaukee Waterways
Milwaukee Waterways
This month, Milwaukee Public Library's Milwaukee Waterways is one of
four digital resources from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections
featured on the OCLC website.
content.mpl.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/MilwWaterwa
This collection of photographs illustrates the role Lake Michigan and
Milwaukee's rivers have played in the history of Milwaukee. Images of
the harbor and ships from around the world loading and unloading
materials show the variety of materials that have 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. The
photographs are from three collections contributed by the Port of
Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Public Library, and the Wisconsin Marine
Historical Society.
Brown County War History Committee Records
Brown County War Records
This first digitization project from Green Bay's Neville Public Museum
of Brown County is hosted by Wisconsin Heritage Online and the Wisconsin
Historical Society at
content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fnpmh The
project, which is still in progress, is funded by a "Save Our History"
grant from the History Channel. It is a joint venture of the Neville
Public Museum, Preble High School, and the University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay.
The First World War had a transformative effect upon Green Bay as well
as the state of Wisconsin as a whole. In the Green Bay area alone, more
than 1700 soldiers went to Europe. After the war ended, the Brown County
War History Committee interviewed local soldiers and their families
about their wartime service and collected a wealth of personal, family,
and military information, including hundreds of photographs and original
letters. The goal of the Committee's project was to publish a book, but
it was never completed. By historical quirk, this collection survived.
It is now owned by the Neville Public Museum and is housed at the
UW-Green Bay Area Research Center. Induction records, photographs, and
letters home from nearly 600 soldiers are now online; hundreds more will
be added in the coming months.
Project News
Preservation Racine, Inc.
This local history and historic preservation group is currently
digitizing four decades of its member newsletter, which features a
wealth of information on local buildings and people. Preservation
Racine, under the supervision of local historian Sharon Baldukas, is
working closely with University of Wisconsin-Parkside archivist Anna
Stadick and an intern, UW-Parkside History student Michael DeGrace, to
scan and catalog the newsletters.
South Wood County Historical Corporation
The staff of this local historical society in Wisconsin Rapids is
bravely pioneering a prototype project that Wisconsin Heritage Online
has long promoted. They have scanned a collection of images from
Lawrence Oliver, a photographer working locally in the 1940s and 1950s,
and are now cataloging them using PastPerfect Museum Software. They will
then export their data and images and send them to Emily Pfotenhauer,
WHO Outreach Specialist, who will import the materials into a CONTENTdm
collection hosted by the Milwaukee Public Library.
We believe the PastPerfect-CONTENTdm transfer will prove a good model
for other historical societies because current PastPerfect users (which
includes many local historical societies in Wisconsin) can contribute
digital materials for the world to find and use using existing content
and familiar software—they don't have to learn
another new computer program or a new cataloging system.
McMillan Memorial Library
Andy Barnett, Assistant Director at the McMillan Memorial Library in
Wisconsin Rapids, began digitizing local history materials almost 10
years ago—the infancy of cultural heritage
digitization. We are now working with him to move this material to a
collection hosted by the Milwaukee Public Library using CONTENTdm, a
digital content management system, which will make the collection easier
to find and to search.
WHO Resources Wiki and Guidelines
Major changes to wiki structure and many document updates
Since starting with WHO in June, Emily Pfotenhauer, our new Outreach
Specialist, has learned a great deal about our Content Providers' needs
through talking, reading and editing. She found the Wisconsin Heritage
Online wiki very helpful but also, like many web pages, in need of
updating. If you are a long-time wiki user but haven't looked at it
recently, you can now find lots of new information as well as a
refreshing view of old information.
If you are not a current user of the wiki, Wisconsin Heritage Online
membership is a requirement to access most of the pages. The membership
fee is $50 for small institutions; $100 for large ones. The membership
form is on a publicly-accessible wiki page at
wiheritage.pbworks.com/FrontPage
Emily and Debbie have also undertaken a thorough review of the
guidelines and other documents available to Wisconsin Heritage Online
members. We have made major revisions and updates to the Metadata
Guidelines, the Digital Imaging Guidelines, the Preservation
Recommendations, and the Selection Policy and Collection Development
Policy, all available through the WHO wiki. In addition to clarifying
details, we made significant updates to conform to new developments in
digitization practices. If you are currently using our earlier
guidelines, be sure to download the new versions.
Events to Note
2nd Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Please join us on October 29 & 30 for the 2nd Annual Upper Midwest
CONTENTdm User Group Meeting!
Registration closes Friday, October 23 at 5pm
The 2nd Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting will be held
at the Pyle Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
October 29-30, 2009. For registration, agenda, hotel information and
more, please go to www.wils.wisc.edu/events/MWcontdm_09.html
We hope to see you there!
Featured Connections
These "connections" are not to or of digital materials that fit
Wisconsin Heritage Online's mission, but they may enhance your knowledge
of historical materials available online.
Wisconsin Historical Records Repository Directory
<http://wisrecordsgroup.wetpaint.com/>
wisrecordsgroup.wetpaint.com
* Discover the variety of cultural institutions in Wisconsin that hold
historical records
* Share information about the historical records your organization
collects
* Interact with others responsible for collecting and preserving
historical records
* For more information, contact Jennifer Graham at
jennifera.graham@wisconsinhistory.org
Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory
<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ahi/>
www.wisconsinhistory.org/ahi
This resource from the Wisconsin Historical Society's Historic
Preservation division provides historical and architectural information
on approximately 120,000 properties in Wisconsin. The AHI documents a
wide range of historic properties, including the round barns, log
houses, metal truss bridges, small town commercial buildings, and Queen
Anne houses that create Wisconsin's distinct cultural landscape.
Wisconsin Digital Archives
<http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wddp-digitalarchive.html>
dpi.wi.gov/rll/wddp-digitalarchive.html
Wisconsin statutes require Wisconsin state agencies to send copies of
their publications to the Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library for
distribution to libraries through the Wisconsin Document Depository
Program <http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/inddep.html> . The Wisconsin Document
Depository Program collects and distributes state publications to
Wisconsin libraries. This program preserves and makes available a record
of major state government programs and assures the availability of state
publications for use by the public throughout Wisconsin now and in the
future. Many of these publications are now born-digital, that is,
published only on the Web.
The Wisconsin Digital Archives is a collaborative effort involving the
Wisconsin Reference and Loan <http://dpi.wi.gov/rll> Library, the
Wisconsin <http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/> Historical Society, the
Wisconsin <http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/> Legislative Reference
Bureau, the Wisconsin <http://www.dot.wi.gov/> Department of
Transportation, the University <http://www.wisc.edu/> of
Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin <http://www.wilawlibrary.gov/>
State Law Library. For more information, contact Abby Swanton at
Abbigail.Swanton@dpi.wi.gov
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Principal writer and editor, Debbie Cardinal
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Wisconsin <http://wisconsinheritage.org/> Heritage Online
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Debbie Cardinal
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