Contributed by: Hoang Tran, Director of Archives
Exciting news! The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services‘ (IMLS) Museums for America program to digitize, catalog, re-house, and provide online access to its historic Annual Exhibition photograph collection.
Larger project goals include: This one-year project represents the archives’ inaugural efforts to digitize and provide online access to its collections. The award will not only fund the purchase of necessary equipment, but also hire and train project employees to assist in the digitization and cataloging of at least 2,000 photographs.
- Establishing guidelines, workflows, best practices for digitizing archival collections.
- Developing metadata standards.
- Developing a digital archive.
We are thankful to the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the funds to help us reach our goals!
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