Access to Oregon Folklife Collections Project, Year 2

About This Grant

In the second year of this multi-year project, the Archives of Northwest Folklore will improve access to Oregon Folklife Program (OFP) collections in a project that makes effective use of existing library technologies and programs, notably the Archivists' Toolkit (AT), a free and open-source data management system that facilitates publication of finding aids and catalog records, and Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA), an Orbis Cascade Alliance program that provides access to finding aids through an online database. The collections comprise fieldwork documentation generated by of the OFP, which was located at the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) until 2009, and replaced in 2011 as the state's public folklore organization by the Oregon Folklife Network (OFN), located at the University of Oregon. In this year of the project the Archives will use tools it developed during the first year to minimally reprocess collections, inventory and assess media materials, build a collections database, and publish finding aids and catalog records. The primary goal is to improve public access to Oregon folklife collections.