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Digital Forsyth 

an NC ECHO funded collaborative digital library

digitalforsyth.org - overview

15,000 Digital images Partners

Winston Salem State University Forsyth County Public Library Wake Forest University Old Salem Museums and Gardens

LSTA Grant funded through NCEcho3 year digitization project, continuing with community digitization training

digitalforsyth.org - Overview

Mission Through digitization, Digital Forsyth, a collaboration of

cultural heritage institutions in Forsyth County, North Carolina, facilitates access to cultural, historical and scientific heritage photograph collections, thereby increasing interest in and knowledge of the past and informing future generations.

Vision Users will turn to Digital Forsyth as the definitive online

repository of cultural heritage resources held by Forsyth County institutions. The digital library will provide the community with content available under creative commons licensing.

Collaborative digital libraries

Content discovery

Community participation

Community participation

Education - Lesson activities

Creating an Open Access DL

Platform Open Source (Dspace, Wordpress)

Sustainable, scalable (Flickr)

Easy to use

Licensing Find common goals

How open can our content be?

Build Open Access in your contracts

Outreach

Educate the public on copyright issues

Bring context to digital images (Lesson plans, stories, comments)

Build partnerships (Outreach grants, training, equipment)

Next steps - Preserving Forsyth’s Past

Outreach program in conjunction with Forsyth County Public Library

Work with local organizations to learn how to organize, preserve, and digitize historic resources.

Establish digitization centers at area libraries for organizations and individuals

Timeline (Digitization centers – Fall 2009, Workshops – November 2009, Feb 2010, April 2010, June 2010)

Digital Forsyth:http://www.digitalforsyth.org/

Erik Mitchell – mitcheet@wfu.eduKevin Gilbertson – gilberkm@wfu.edu

Susan Smith – smithss@wfu.edu