F16: We'll Get There Together: Launching Collections into the Future with Arca, BC's Collaborative Digital Repository
Session Description
Collaboration can be transformative and a key to future success, particularly for smaller libraries/memory organisations. Through collaboration and large-scale systemic design, Arca, BC's collaborative digital repository, creates equity across the province by putting an innovative discovery platform within reach for even the smallest organisations.
Come to this panel session to learn about the transformative impact of Arca from BC GLAM sector participants who are using Arca to make their digital treasures searchable and accessible to their communities. You'll hear about the innovative collaboration models for Arca partnerships with the BC History Digitization Program and the Digitized Okanagan History Project. Bring your ideas about how we as a community might grow this award-winning provincial service across the BC GLAM sector!
Speakers
Sunni Nishimura, BC Electronic Library Network
Biography
Sunni Nishimura is a manager at the BC Electronic Library Network, where she is nearing 12 years as a coordinator of BC provincial services. She managed the 2014 implementation of Arca, BC's collaborative digital repository, and currently coordinates Arca partnerships and support for new participants.
Paige Hohmann, UBC Okanagan
Biography
Paige Hohmann is Archivist at UBC’s Okanagan Campus Library in Kelowna, B.C. where she manages institutional records governance for the campus and maintains the care of Okanagan Special Collections. Since 2016, she worked with Chris Hives, UBC University Archivist, with the Digitized Okanagan History (D.O.H.) Project, a network of partnerships between UBCO Library and numerous local heritage organizations which has a view to enhancing access to primary source materials pertinent to the region.
Heidi Rampfl, Gulf of Georgia Cannery
Biography
Heidi Rampfl is the full time Collections Manager in charge of the artifact, archive, and library collections at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site in Richmond, BC. For the past two years, she has also acted as a contract Collections Consultant for the North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site in Port Edward, BC. While working at the North Pacific Cannery, she was responsible for several projects, including the digitization of their archival photograph collection and its inclusion on the Arca platform.