June 30, 2006

Canadian Group Hopes to Gather Scattered Digitization Efforts Into a Central Portal

By SCOTT CARLSON

Librarians and archivists in Canada are hopeful that a new nationwide online project that went live last week will pull together digitization efforts across the country and make them easily accessible to the public.

The project, AlouetteCanada, is named after a French-Canadian children's song. It is intended to be a portal site for boutique digitization projects at various colleges and museums. As a searchable, open-access database, Alouette will focus on digitized materials about or

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