Digital Collections
Minitex News articles tagged with "Digital Collections" (116):
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Inver Hills Community College contributes student newspaper collection to MDL
Inver Hills Community College has recently contributed 320 issues of their student newspaper, "The Forum," to the Minnesota Digital Library.
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New MDL exhibit highlights the impact of iron mining on Minnesota
The Minnesota Digital Library recently published a new online exhibit titled "Ore on the Range: The Impact of Iron Mining on Minnesota."
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Minnesota Digital Library achieves 60,000 digitized items milestone
The Minnesota Digital Library recently passed the 60,000 mark for the total amount of unique digital items available on its website.
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Journey “Up North” and back in time to northern Minnesota’s resorts
The Minnesota Digital Library recently published an online map exploring hotel and resort history in northern Minnesota.
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Filling the Minnesota map for MDL’s 20th anniversary
The Minnesota Digital Library will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025. In honor of that milestone, MDL has a goal to add a contributing organization from each of Minnesota’s 87 counties. We are only missing eighteen counties!
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Last call to register for Minitex digital preservation course: Managing Digital Content Over Time
The deadline to register is Monday, April 8th for the spring offering of "Managing Digital Content Over Time: An Introduction to Digital Preservation." If caring for digital objects is part of your work, consider joining us for this 3-part virtual course!
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Making digital collections more discoverable, Part 1: Wikimedia
In 2023, Minitex and three organizations conducted a small pilot to learn more about using the wiki-based, free-to-use media repository called Wikimedia Commons, along with its sister sites Wikidata and Wikipedia, to increase discoverability of content from digital collections. Soon after adding the very first test image to Wikimedia Commons, it appeared as the top Google Search result. If this sounds intriguing, read on for a brief overview of why we did the pilot and what we learned.
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Making digital collections more discoverable, Part 2: A how-to guide
Part 2 in this article series includes more detailed information and guidance on how we conducted the Minitex Wikimedia pilot; what you would need to know if you wanted to try it at your organization, and links to the templates we created and other resources we used.
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New MDL Contributor: Rondo Center of Diverse Expression
Explore a new digital collection in the Minnesota Digital Library from the Rondo Center of Diverse Expression. It includes photographs, stories, and programs commemorating the unique Rondo Avenue neighborhood in St. Paul, which was destroyed by the construction of Interstate 94 in 1964.
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You're invited: Bit Curator Forum satellite event at the University of Minnesota
Do you work with born-digital materials or are you curious to learn more about how others work with them? Register and join us for an in-person Bit Curator Forum satellite event at the University of Minnesota to meet with like-minded folks. Our FREE local programming will occur on day 2 of the Forum, March 20, at Andersen Library on the west bank of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.