Wisconsin Heritage Online (WHO) is a collaborative digitization program initiated in 2004 by Wisconsin Library Services, the Wisconsin Historical Society

Wisconsin Historical Society

The Wisconsin Historical Society is simultaneously a private membership and a state-funded organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West...

, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with support from the Milwaukee Public Library, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. The Wisconsin Heritage Online web portal brings together digital collections from public and academic libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies throughout Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

. Portal content includes all aspects of Wisconsin's history, culture, government, and industry.

Wisconsin Heritage Online maintains a wiki for member organizations and offers training in digital imaging, metadata

Metadata

The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...

 standards, and digital preservation

Digital preservation

Digital preservation is the set of processes, activities and management of digital information over time to ensure its long term accessibility. The goal of digital preservation is to preserve materials resulting from digital reformatting, and particularly information that is born-digital with no...

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External links

Wisconsin Heritage Online research portal

Wisconsin Heritage Online resources wiki