Canada has a vibrant community of memory institutions including university, public and government libraries and archives, museums, galleries, local history societies, genealogical societies and like-minded organizations as well individuals committed to Digitize, to Preserve, and to provide online Access (DPA) to Canadian content. Several digitization, preservation and facilitated access projects are already finished, underway or planned by Canadian memory institutions.
The risk of permanent loss of Canada’s knowledge content is real and increasing. A strong collaborative methodology continues to evolve across Canada. Major memory institutions are developing strategies to collaborate at national and regional levels to share mass digitization and preservation platforms.
The Canadiana.org Vision states:
The Canadiana vision is to provide Canadians with enduring online access to the available body of Canadian knowledge in government, cultural, scientific, academic and entertainment content.
Under its Digitization, Preservation and Access (DPA) programme, Canadiana.org undertakes open source projects to advance the social and economic benefits of making Canada’s knowledge content accessible online.
