Canadiana.org: One of Canada's oldest and newest digitization initiatives

• Main Author: Brian Bell
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Partnership 2008-06-01
• Series: Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
• Subjects: Metadata; Portal; Collaboratio; Preservation; Access
• Online Access: http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/465/829

Canadiana.org is a new independent, non-profit, alliance of partners, includingLibrary and Archives Canada, from all parts of Canada's cultural, heritage,research, broadcasting and publishing communities, chartered to raise funds,receive donations and grants and to act as the overall coordinator and facilitatorfor digitization initiatives and related enduring access services and preservationinfrastructures. Working with Library and Archives Canada under the frameworkof the Canadian Digital Information Strategy, Canadiana.org has a 'masterplan' to facilitate a coherent national digital information strategy. The communityhas developed a bilingual metadata toolkit to suit most types of material as anoption for those who need it. The community also supports a powerful bilingualpublic access Indexing and Discovery Portal system (right now brandedAlouetteCanada) to enhance the searching and discovery of local digitalcollections of all types across the country.