Wisconsin Heritage Online
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Wisconsin Heritage Online is an expanding digital collection, featuring documentary sources and material culture from Wisconsin libraries, archives, and museums. The collections in this portal are contributed by cultural heritage organizations throughout Wisconsin. Click on Content Providers for information about the providers and their digital collections. Initiated in 2004 as a collaborative project of Wisconsin cultural heritage institutions, Wisconsin Heritage Online is a digital collection of Wisconsin's history, heritage, culture and people.
Participation is open to all Wisconsin cultural collections archives, historical societies, libraries, museums and other organizations with content to share. Subject matter is interpreted broadly to include all aspects of Wisconsin history, culture, government and industry.
[edit] Goals
Expand access to Wisconsin's cultural heritage resources by assisting cultural heritage institutions to digitize content
Facilitate digitization through coordinated training and consultation
Encourage digitization through availability of support and hosting services
Maintain the infrastructure to support digital collaboration
Expand access to digitized content of cultural heritage institutions
Provide for interoperability across a variety of collections available through digital collection initiatives
Provide for content to be accessible from one place
