Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) is an online catalog of descriptive information about the archival collections at various institutions in the Northwestern United States

Northwestern United States

The Northwestern United States comprise the northwestern states up to the western Great Plains regions of the United States, and consistently include the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, to which part of southeast Alaska is also sometimes included...

 (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Alaska, and Washington). It was established in 2002, and is currently is a program of the Orbis Cascade Alliance

Orbis Cascade Alliance

The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a library consortium serving libraries in the Northwest U.S. The consortium was formed through the 2003 merger of two previous consortia: Orbis and Cascade...

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It was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...

 in two phases between 2002 and 2007, and by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

It uses Encoded Archival Description

Encoded Archival Description

Encoded Archival Description is an XML standard for encoding archival finding aids, maintained by the Library of Congress in partnership with the Society of American Archivists.-History:EAD originated in 1993, at the University of California, Berkeley...

(EAD).

Member institutions

• Alaska State Library, Historical Collections
• Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
• Central Washington University
• Central Oregon Community College
• Concordia University
• Eastern Oregon University
• Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
• Eastern Washington University
• George Fox University
• Idaho State Historical Society
• Lane Community College
• Lewis & Clark College
• Montana Historical Society
• Oregon Health & Science University
• Oregon Historical Society
• Oregon Institute of Technology
• Oregon State University
• Pacific Lutheran University
• Pacific University
• Portland State University
• Seattle Municipal Archives
• Seattle Pacific University
• Seattle University
• Seattle Museum of History & Industry
• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• University of Idaho
• University of Montana
• University of Oregon
• University of Puget Sound
• University of Washington
• Washington State University
• Western Oregon University
• Whitman College
• Whitworth University
• Willamette University