The Okanagan Region Historical Digitization Project is a partnership between the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus and numerous local museums and archives throughout B.C.\u2019s southern interior.<\/p>\n
Since 2017, we have been enhancing access to historical documents and photographs of the Okanagan by scanning them and putting them online in our Digitized Okanagan History<\/a> (D.O.H.) repository.<\/p>\n We scan materials on-site at partner repositories using our mobile digitization lab, comprised of two laptops, two flatbed scanners, one book scanner, and four enthusiastic UBC students<\/a>. For each site visit, we pack up our equipment and typically spend three days on-site scanning as much as possible. We take these newly-created scans back to the UBC Okanagan campus for post-production (some light editing and description) to get them ready to go online. We also do scanning in-house at UBC Okanagan, where we have equipment to digitize large format items, microfilm, and audio cassettes.<\/p>\n We upload our digitized materials to the D.O.H. repository, which is part of Arca<\/a>, a collaborative initiative to support the development and implementation of digital repositories at BC post-secondary institutions.<\/p>\n