Links
Canadian
Heritage Information Network
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) supports Canadian
museums in the effort to create, present and manage Canadian online
content for public access and educational purposes.The CHIN site
provides the heritage community with access to a wide range of professional
resources, including online courses on image digitization and automated
collections management systems, information about professional events
and career opportunities, research and reference tools, intellectual
property publications, bibliographies, and data dictionaries.
CHIN currently offers the following two support
programs:
Virtual
Museum of Canada Program
Through the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC), CHIN assists the Canadian
museum community in achieving a collective online presence. The
VMC, which is part of the Canadian Culture Online Program (CCOP),
enables Canadians to freely access, in both official languages,
heritage content and features developed by Canadian museums and
galleries. Content includes virtual exhibits, games, educational
materials, close to 200,000 images and records of museum treasures,
and information about nearly 2,500 heritage attractions. For further
information, consult the program guidelines for the Virtual Museum
of Canada (VMC) Investment
Program.
Community
Memories Program
The Community Memories program strengthens the capacity of smaller
museums to create web content by supporting their development of
online local history exhibits. Museums whose proposals are selected
are supplied with user-friendly software and a standard $5,000 investment.The
program is open to public, not-for-profit museums that have demonstrated
their commitment to work collaboratively with colleagues across
the country by becoming members of the Canadian Heritage Information
Network (CHIN).
Canada's
Digital Collections
Industry Canada has funded projects involving digital conversion
of analog material and the creation of Web sites for display on-line.
The production of these collections was intended to stimulate the
development of viable digitization and multimedia enterprises.
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