Digitization Projects of the Special Collections and Archives Department, Penrose Library
The Digitization projects of the Special Collections and Archives Department, through the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP), are multifaceted endeavors
to digitize and catalog materials from collections in the Department. The CDP is a collaborative effort that provides high quality digital access to diverse cultural heritage collections.
To date, the Department has participated in the following projects: Rocky Mountain Online Archive (RMOA)
The Rocky Mountain Online Archive is a collaborative project of the University of New Mexico Libraries, the CDP, and the American Heritage Center of Wyoming. The project was initially funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. RMOA provides public access to over 2,000 specialized guides, called finding aids, from collections in participating libraries and cultural heritage organizations in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico. The University of Denver has already contributed finding aids to RMOA and will continue to do so.
A Sound Model: Collaborative Infrastructure for Digital Audio
The Sound Model Grant is a project of the CDP, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Sound Model Grant will create a shared infrastructure that enables museums, libraries and archives to provide access to digitized oral histories recordings and related transcripts and photographs. As part of this project, the University of Denver has digitized audio recordings and photographs from the Peter H. Dominick Papers and from the Ira M. Beck Oral History Collection. The University of Denver is currently creating web pages for access to the digitized oral histories, photographs, and related transcripts. Western Trails: An Online Journey
The Western Trails project allowed organizations from Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas to publish collections related to western trails, such as Native American trails, explorer trails, settlement trails, and health trails. As part of this project the Ira M. Beck Memorial Archives and the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society, developed a searchable database of patient records, entitled the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) Patient Records. The records reveal information valuable to genealogists and researchers of social, immigration, and medical history.
Heritage Colorado
The Heritage Colorado project was a collaborative effort of Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums, to make accessible the visual and oral record of Colorado's history, culture, government and industry in full text and graphic content.
A searchable online database, Heritage West, was created by CDP to feature these collections.
- Etienne B. Renaud Collection: The Archaeological
Survey of the High Western Plains was developed by the Special
Collections and Archives Department of the Penrose Library and
the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. It contains writings
and artifacts by Etienne B. Renaud, a well-known Colorado archaeologist.
Renaud, a University of Denver professor of anthropology, collected
and documented artifacts on the eastern plains of Colorado, Wyoming,
Oklahoma and New Mexico during the 1930s and 1940s.
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- Images of Pioneer
Jewish Families was developed by the Ira M. Beck Memorial Archives
and the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society of the Special Collections and Archives Department. It features photographs,
textiles and objects that reflect the lives of Colorado Jewish
families and their communities from the late 1800s to the 1970s.
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