Approach to Digitization

The Archives of Ontario will use a combination of three key strategies for digitizing and making our holdings available online:

• Develop and Build Partnerships
  • Explore and establish partnerships with organizations from a variety of sectors (private, internal OPS, non-profit, educational, Government) to digitize and make collections available.
  • Partnerships will enable us to digitize more of our collections than we could on our own, through both resource and expense sharing.
  • Develop digitization projects in partnership with service and technology providers, internal and external funding bodies and other sponsors and donors, user communities such as genealogists and other content holders.
• Make available existing digitized records
  • Gather and assess the archival materials that we have already digitized (i.e. through reproduction requests or for preservation initiatives), and ensure they are available online.
• Implement new internal digitization projects
  • Utilize our own equipment and internal resources and project teams to conduct digitizing projects.
  • Ensure all future online exhibits and visual database initiatives align to the overall Archives of Ontario digitization strategy.

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