Opportunity - Curating Community Digital Collections

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Emily Pfotenhauer (emily@wils.org)
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:28:46 -0600



From: Emily Pfotenhauer <emily@wils.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:28:46 -0600
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Subject: Opportunity - Curating Community Digital Collections

Happy New Year! Do you have a digital preservation project on your list of new year’s resolutions? Are you starting to acquire digital materia ls without a plan to adequately deal with them? Perhaps you already have a few preservation projects in mind but don’t know where to start?

Fear not! Recollection Wisconsin and WiLS are excited to offer a new IMLS-funded program, *Curating Community Digital Collections*, a collaborative initiative to provide information school graduate students with practical experience through summer fieldwork positions working on digital preservation projects at cultural heritage institutions across Wisconsin.

Through a competitive application process, six Wisconsin libraries, archives, historical societies and museums will be selected to host students in Summer 2018. Each host organization will be matched with a graduate student from UW-Madison’s iSchool or the UW-Milwaukee Scho ol of Information Studies. Each student-host team will receive training and mentoring in digital preservation and will work together to organize, store and manage existing digitized or born-digital content. Projects might include activities such as creating an inventory of digital content, assessing storage needs, developing a preservation plan, or standardizing and enhancing existing metadata. Each student will complete 120-150 hours of work for their host, earning course credit as well as a stipend.

An ideal host site organization:

-- is a Wisconsin library, archive, museum, historical society or other cultural heritage institution that serves a small or mid-sized community and/or serves historically underrepresented populations.
-- has worked or intends to work directly with community digital collections.
-- has encountered or, at minimum, discussed a challenge related to basic digital preservation concepts, but struggles with moving from theory to implementation.
-- would benefit from being a part of a small cohort of similar organizations and will put forth effort into sustaining those connections.

-- is able to commit time and energy to supervising a student and sustaining the project work beyond the initial project term.

For more information about the program, or to apply to host a student, please see http://recollectionwisconsin.org/digipres. Applications are due February 28, and prospective hosts are encouraged to submit a draft application for feedback before February 2.

Emily Pfotenhauer Community Liaison & Service Specialist, WiLS 608-616-9756 emily@wils.org

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