Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2024-11-21
Description
Join us as we delve into the transformative process of digitizing, describing, sharing, and preserving the history of Forest City Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio’s first integrated hospital. The Forest City Hospital collection houses primary resources that tell an important story of progress in medical equality, making digitization essential for enhancing discoverability and accessibility. This presentation will outline each phase of the digitization process, highlighting the collaborative efforts between an academic library and a medical history museum. From physical and digital preservation treatments to metadata creation and ingest, we will discuss how we approached this project across departments and institutions. As the first major collaborative project of this size and stature for our library, we learned many valuable lessons to help guide future collaborative digitization projects. With approximately 11,000 digital objects created, this project unveiled challenges and ideas that helped guide us to future best practices and policy development. By sharing our reflections on lessons learned from this project, we hope to foster critical reflection and discussion into best practices for collaborative digitization projects related to the medical field.
Keywords
institutional repositories, MIRL, session 2
Repository Citation
George, Crissandra and Longenecker, Lisa, "Pixels of Progress: Digitizing the Archival Collection of Cleveland's First Integrated Hospital" (2024). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 7.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2024/program/7
Pixels of Progress: Digitizing the Archival Collection of Cleveland's First Integrated Hospital
Join us as we delve into the transformative process of digitizing, describing, sharing, and preserving the history of Forest City Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio’s first integrated hospital. The Forest City Hospital collection houses primary resources that tell an important story of progress in medical equality, making digitization essential for enhancing discoverability and accessibility. This presentation will outline each phase of the digitization process, highlighting the collaborative efforts between an academic library and a medical history museum. From physical and digital preservation treatments to metadata creation and ingest, we will discuss how we approached this project across departments and institutions. As the first major collaborative project of this size and stature for our library, we learned many valuable lessons to help guide future collaborative digitization projects. With approximately 11,000 digital objects created, this project unveiled challenges and ideas that helped guide us to future best practices and policy development. By sharing our reflections on lessons learned from this project, we hope to foster critical reflection and discussion into best practices for collaborative digitization projects related to the medical field.