odw & digital collections

WaterlooJune 2014

About OurDigitalWorldAbout VITA

Community ConnectionsCollaborationManagementNetworked

• We’re a not-for-profit that has been working on local, regional and provincially scaled digitization projects since 2005

• We develop tools and services that connect people and their communities around digital stories and objects in a sustainable manner

• Platform for capacity-building and community engagement

• Knowledge base for sharing expertise and best practices

About ODW

• Consultation• Resources (including copyright)• Project management training • Data migration• All-in-one Newspaper Digitization• Custom development• Large-scale community digitization

ODW Services

• Access to over 4 million digital images, oral histories, scrapbooks, videos, newspapers, BMDs, etc…

• Aggregated content discovery via the OurOntario.ca portal from 200+ organizations

• Largest online archive of Ontario newspapers, with 200+ years of newspaper content (Full-run scans and BMD indexes) at Ontario News portal

• GovDocs portal offers easy and instant access to over 33,000 documents from the Legislative Library—soon to include the HANSARD

ODW Services

• Public libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, community groups, academic libraries, municipalities and government ministries, associations

•About 131 VITA Toolkit partners (~101 sites)

•Over 250 portal partners (TPL, Laurier University, Glenbow Archives, Niagara Falls Public Library, Sparrow Lake Historical Society, to name but a few)

•Provincial and national organizations – Ontario Historical Society, Ontario Library Association, SOLS/OLS-N, Canadiana

Clients and Partners

About OurDigitalWorldAbout VITA

Community ConnectionsCollaborationManagementNetworked

VITA• Software to create and manage data

• Hosting of your digital objects in secure infrastructure

• A complete interactive site for displaying your digital collections with searching, browsing and social media options for today’s web user

Platform• We provide the technical capability and know-how so you can focus

on your collections and your community

• Cost-effective, flexible pricing options to fit your specific needs

• Options for collaborative approaches and storage

• Accessible anytime, anywhere via the web

• Analytics package provides real-use data for programming opportunities and advocacy

Online Engagement Tools• One-on-one support via chat, social and email

• Full step by step documentation

• Community forum to share tips, questions and more

Partnership Support

About OurDigitalWorldAbout VITA

Community ConnectionsCollaborationManagementNetworked

Online Engagement ToolsEngage with your community

• Social media and integrated engagement tools

• Create stories about the collections via the exhibits module

• Opportunity for your audience to share their knowledge and connection to the collections

Community Connections

“Sustainable” Crowdsourcing

Fan mail

About OurDigitalWorldAbout VITA

Community ConnectionsCollaborationManagementNetworked

Online Engagement Tools• Partnerships & collaboration builds stronger network

(expertise, resource sharing, multi-organizational buy-in)

• Regional representation

• Crowdsource volunteers

• Generate support

Offline and Online Networking

MHSO volunteer program

About OurDigitalWorldAbout VITA

Community ConnectionsCollaborationManagementNetworked

Online Engagement Tools• Monthly site traffic reports & analytics

• Internal statistics

• Attribution & Permissions options

• Reusable, standards-based data

Management tools

Analytics

Standards-based, reusable data = sharing

About OurDigitalWorldAbout VITA

Community ConnectionsCollaborationManagementNetworked

Online Engagement ToolsNetworked dataOur motto – create once, use many times in different spaces

Display the data: Via multiple VITA sites – organizational, regional, thematic, etc.Places where your audience is – export data into Facebook, Flickr, iTunes, etc.

Our platform is designed to leverage and work with other applications (such as Google Earth)

Connecting your community and your collections to the world

Optimized discovery

War of 1812 Aggregated data

Thank youLoren Fantin: lfantin@ourdigitalworld.org

Jess Posgate: jposgate@ourdigitalworld.org

ourdigitalworld.orgvitatoolkit.ca

VITA Partners:http://vitatoolkit.ca/showcase

VITA Features Examples:• http://vitatoolkit.ca/showcase/historical-societies/• http://vitatoolkit.ca/showcase/museums/

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