Walpole Island Heritage Centre - Walpole Island First Nation

Purpose

This project builds upon a 2019-2020 digitization project by the Walpole Island Heritage Centre, and it aims to digitize existing documentary heritage related to our Anishinaabe language and culture held by the Heritage Centre and other Walpole Island First Nation departments and programs. The project's main goals are to establish a community resource for language and cultural heritage digitization, digitize 100s of physical documents, maps, language resource/education materials, 1000s of photographs, and over 200 analogue recordings create descriptive metadata to aid greater access to discovery by community members, devise and enact a preservation strategy for digitized materials and develop and launch a content management system (CMS) for accessibility.