From: Emily Pfotenhauer <emily@wils.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:28:46 -0600 Message-ID: <CAMtke013Vp78-c2dL85=xoOKZLZodhQeEZ9H72YmGJgtNtRx5g@mail.gmail.com> 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
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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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