"Bears, blue potatoes, and strong drink": Bringing the 1876 Prince Edward Island Historical Survey into the Spotlight

This presentation discusses how a digitization project undertaken at the request of, and in consultation with, a specialized and expert user community, and focussing on a specific document collection, is providing valuable lessons for our digitization program as a whole. Since we are, in effect, "embedded" with the users who requested the digitization, and have also asked other users to help develop the project, we have been challenged to go beyond a "digitization on demand" transaction, and think creatively about all aspects of our digital collection development, especially enriched and specialized metadata solutions.