Grants and Contributions

Consisting of 55,000 negatives, including 12,000 on glass, the Fonds Joseph-Eudore Lemay brings together the entire documentary collection of the most important photography studio established in Saguenay during the first half of the 20th century.
The goal of the project is to make the Fonds accessible and to improve its conservation.

This project will create a Canadian LGBTQ2+ Digital Collections Management Strategy for The ArQuives, including establishing digitization plans, policies, procedures, and workflows, and provide digitization and best practices training for LGBTQ2+ volunteers and staff.

Salish Sea Indigenous Guardians Association: Recording and Preserving the Voices of our Elders

This VHEC project aims to strengthen and support the organization’s digital preservation efforts by upgrading its LTO (Linear Tape-Open) system and migrating data from LTO 7 to LTO 10 tapes. Key activities include migrating Holocaust testimony data, updating preservation policies and workflows, enhancing metadata in the VHEC’s internal Digital Preservation module in Collective Access, and improving digital preservation infrastructure for long-term access.

The BC Forest Discovery Centre (BCFDC) is custodian to a large collection of maps, blueprints, plans, and large-format photos that the organization proposes to create digital copies of in order to increase their accessibility and utility to information seekers visiting the museum as well as the broader community it serves.

CPAC is proposing to undertake the work to preserve and add approximately 737 audiovisual recordings to its publicly accessible online video archive. The materials consist of recordings of CPAC’s broadcast coverage of the 2008 and 2011 Canadian federal election campaigns, featuring party leaders’ local campaign events and regional coverage of high-profile ridings, as well as contemporaneous political party conventions.

This project will preserve, protect, and make accessible, archival collections through Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre’s online digital portal and future exhibition galleries. This access-based management project will make collections publicly available while increasing the organization’s digital preservation capacity.

Our project will see the development of a new cloud based storage solution for roughly 8 TB of cultural records to address risks of aging servers, insecure data warehousing, data security gaps, and PI/KHS not benefiting from emerging technology. Working with Ampere (formerly known as Pinnguaq Association), the team will review the current data scope, and technology options; develop project workflows, design elements, and user Experience; execute the migration of data and the Web Application, with demonstrations & testing; and create easy-use portals for content upload and curation.

The SHD has a unique, original, and representative archival fonds that reflects the evolution of residences and the built environment of Centre-du-Québec: the collection of annotated architectural projects and plans by architect André Camirand (1940-2022). In order to make this archival fonds accessible, the SHD wants to process it, digitize it (notably large format plans and those showing signs of mould), and disseminate it (exhibition, 3D modelling, multimedia content, etc.)

The organization aims to digitize original documents and video productions related to the advocacy for, and early experiments in, Vancouver's community cable system in the 1970s. The materials to be digitized are from two collections: Metro Media Society (est. 1971), and Vancouver Status of Women: Woman Alive (1975-1979).