We, as in the college, is a member of the Appalachian College Association, a consortium of 24 (or so) small colleges up and down and near the Appalachians. It maintains a website and the Digital Library of Appalachia, and other programs. But for our purposes the DLA is the focus of our attention. Heretofore, WWC has participated by uploading 60% of the Mountain Music College, full-length or partial clips of singers, songwriters, instrumentalists who are local, traditional musicians or who performed in music halls/festivals/venues here in the area.
The DLA is now requesting members upload photographs from the collections. I attended a training session on using the software to do this last year, except them I got busy and didn't have an opportunity to use it. That, and Amanda is very excited about doing this kind of data work.
Because when you digitize and add photos to a collection it's not just the digitization, it's the creation of metadata. This will be a slow process with lots of edits and checks and re-checks along the way. But soon enough we'll share our fabulous photograph collection with the rest of the world.
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