Digital Conversion of Collection Images

In the short-term, we have increased the number of usable digital assets by 726 through the digital conversion of slides to digital images. Our original outcome was achieved. Additionally, our goal was to upload a total of 250 objects onto the mmaacollections.omeka.net site. We have fallen short of this goal, with 100 pieces uploaded to date, due to the unforeseen circumstance of our vendor. An additional 30 will be added by the end of October 2017. Although we did not achieve our goal of 250 objects this round, we are set to reach that goal by the end of December 2017 with our current metadata grant received April 2017 (not this grant for digital conversion).

Our intermediate goal was to provide museum staff, educators, students, and researchers more access to the collection. At this time, we know that staff, vendors, and researchers are utilizing the website to learn more about objects in the M's permanent collection. We expect the volume of users to this site to continue to increase as the online digital collection grows.