Digital Collections

The Thorpe Digital Center seeks opportunities to work collaboratively to help build and maintain digital collections for teaching and learning.

Some things to think about before submitting a proposal:

1. Who is the audience for this digital project?
2. How will users interact with this material?
3. Is the material already digitized and available online?
4. Do you have permission to digitize and publish this material online?

1. Enhance instruction or research needs at IWU
2. Are distinctive and have potential for academic use and collaboration with colleagues both at IWU and beyond
3. There are faculty and library advocates for the project.
4. Represents exemplary work of faculty or students at IWU.
5. The project is reasonable, practical and achievable.
6. The project can be completed with available funding, or has the potential to generate funding through grants, donors, or other external fund sources.
7. Intellectual property rights are addressed and if necessary, access will be restricted.
8. Faculty are willing to collaborate actively in the creation of metadata (keywords and descriptions of ojbects in collection) and in the assessment of the project.

Some examples of CONTENTdm projects:

JWP Collection - Collection of images from the John Wesley Powell Pottery Collection

Argus Collection - 2004 - present

Rebecca Gearhart Collection -

If you have a collection that you are interested in working on please contact Stephanie Davis-Kahl at 556-3010.