Grants and Contributions:

Digitizing Wanuskewin's Archives

2223-0081

$34,549.00

Apr 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023

Wanuskewin Heritage Park (WHP), a non-profit organization and proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site, plans to catalogue, digitize and preserve the visual material collection that began with the first archeological digs, in the early 1980s, and spans to the present day. The collection comprises various media formats, including approximately 1,000 35mm slides, 1,000 photographs, 50 VHS tapes, and 30 posters. The funding will contribute in two main ways. First, it will serve to catalogue and digitize the visual material collection, along with the accompanying metadata, and add it to the WHP's established database. Second, it will make it possible to acquire the infrastructure, equipment, and tools needed to adequately care for the collection in order to ensure continued access, proper use, and preservation.

Library and Archives Canada

WHP expects the visual material collection of approximately 2,500 items to be catalogued and digitized, and then uploaded to the WHP's database with accompanying metadata by March 31, 2023. This includes some contingency time and time to test the database with various users. This project continues the WHP long-term goal of creating a usable and organized collection, archive and library, with the shared goal of caring for the artifacts and intangible culture of Northern Plains peoples and contemporary Indigenous peoples.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA S7K 3J7

129-2022-2023-Q1-00016

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

130874902RR0001

Indigenous recipients

Wanuskewin Heritage Park Authority

Documentary Heritage Communities Program

The Documentary Heritage Communities Program supports the development of Canada's local archival and library communities by increasing their capacity to preserve, provide access to, and promote local documentary heritage.