Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Digitizing existing documentary heritage at Bkejwanong (Walpole Island First Nation)
Agreement Number:
LHOV-04-063
Agreement Value:
$100,000.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 18, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
This project builds upon a 2019-2020 digitization project by the Walpole Island Heritage Centre, and it aims to digitize existing documentary heritage related to our Anishinaabe language and culture held by the Heritage Centre and other Walpole Island First Nation departments and programs. The project's main goals are to establish a community resource for language and cultural heritage digitization, digitize 100s of physical documents, maps, language resource/education materials, 1000s of photographs, and over 200 analogue recordings create descriptive metadata to aid greater access to discovery by community members, devise and enact a preservation strategy for digitized materials and develop and launch a content management system (CMS) for accessibility.
Organization:
Library and Archives Canada
Expected Results:
Extending capacity to be a community resource for language and cultural heritage digitization
Creation of digital copies of documentary heritage related to Indigenous language and culture
Create descriptive metadata to aid greater access to discovery by community members
Implement a preservation strategy for digital materials
Make digitized copies available to community and external users through a content management system (CMS)
Location:
Wallaceburg, Ontario, CA N8A 4K9
Reference Number:
129-2023-2024 Q1-LHOV-05-063
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Indigenous recipients
Recipient's Legal Name:
Walpole Island Heritage Centre - Walpole Island First Nation
Program:
Listen, Hear Our Voices
Program Purpose:
Listen, Hear Our Voices supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments and non-profit organizations in: 1) digitizing existing documentary heritage related to Indigenous languages and cultures, and 2) building the skills, knowledge and resources to do this work in their communities.