ELMHS Digital Image Viewing Project

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,973
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Excelsior-Lake Minnetonka Historical Society
Start Date
December 2010
End Date
June 2011
Activity Type
Grants/Contracts
Counties Affected
Hennepin
Hennepin
Project Overview

Technical equipment was purchased that digitized historical images from the Society's photograph collections. The ELMHS Digital Image Viewing Project included the digitization, cataloging and web publishing of 525 images. A PastPerfect add on software program, called Virtual Exhibit, was used for the web publishing. Digitization will continue until the full 1500+ photograph collection has been reproduced. The photographs are now more accessible to researchers while the actual images can be better preserved through lack of physical contact.

Project Details
To add 500 digital images of artifacts into its PastPerfect Museum Software collections management system
Legal Citation / Subdivision
LAWS of MINNESOTA for 2009 Ch. 172, Art. 1, Subd. 4 (b), Statewide Historic and Cultural Grants
Appropriation Language

(b) Statewide Historic and Cultural Grants. (i) $2,250,000 in 2010 and $4,500,000 in 2011 are appropriated for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional or other historical or cultural organizations; or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Funds are to be distributed through a competitive grants process. The Minnesota Historical Society shall administer these funds using established grants mechanisms, and with assistance from the advisory committee created herein.

2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,973
Other Funds Leveraged
$2,530
Project Manager
Salutation
Ms.
First Name
Cary
Last Name
Smith
Street Address
PO Box 271
City
Spring Park
State
MN
Zip Code
55384
Administered By
Administered by
Location

345 W. Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155

Phone
651-259-3000