Accessing digital historical information by geography was the focus of an initiative at a kickoff meeting of the University of Utah Marriott Library, State History, State Archives, Utah Geological Survey, Dept. of Community and Culture and the AGRC.
The vision of the group is to provide online access to digital historical documents, photographs, maps, audio and video materials based on location identified on an interactive map. Accessing the historical assets of these organizations would be a beginning. Other rich sources of historical information lie with local governments and private collections. It is anticipated that by combining efforts under this initiative, the group can take advantage of future funding opportunities such as grants.
If you are interested in adding your expertise to this project, please join the Virtual Utah Project Forum .
Very interesting project, Jeannie. I'm reporting about Virtual Utah to the library community in our blog. We attach some geospatial metadata to state and local government publications received for Utah Government Publications Online. I'd like to keep up with what the group is doing so that we can adopt the same standards you are using.
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