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Digital Project Planning and Management

Planning a digital project? We can provide expertise! Contact us for a consult at any stage in your process to assess specifications on digitization, equipment, platforms, funding sources, copyright, metadata, timelines, and preservation and storage.

Digital Projects at UNCW Library

University of North Carolina Wilmington Digital Collections are the product of collaborative projects within the library, the university, and the wider community. They include digitized artifacts, art, diaries, letters, newspapers, photographs, oral histories, and reports. These collections focus on the history of the University of North Carolina Wilmington as well as the history of Southeast North Carolina and the Lower Cape Fear Region. Learn more about Digital Initiatives here. Some UNCW Digital Collections are also discoverable in large aggregate sites like DigitalNC, DPLA, and Internet Archive.

Digital Initiatives continues to seek partnerships with the wider community to create digital projects to enhance teaching and research. Projects could entail analog or born digital material from the library specialized collections, general collection, or from other sources. Topics may be related to the University of North Carolina Wilmington, the region, or other research and teaching interests. If you have a project proposal idea, please contact us!

Campus partners:

The History Hub, UNCW History Department

Community partners:

Cameron Art Museum, The Columbus County News Reporter, Columbus County Public Library, and Southport Historical Society

View UNCW Library's Collaborative Digital Projects Page. These projects represent work completed within UNCW Library, as well as showcase student work, and campus and community collaborations. These types of projects utilize innovative tools and technologies to enhance the user experience with the material such as interactive timelines, visual mapping, and data visualizations. Digital Initiatives, along with many others in UNCW Library participated in the creation of projects featured here.

Metadata and Rights

Metadata helps users discover your work. Metadata can be descriptive, structural, or administrative. It can be automated or manually created.

Rights statements make it easy to see if and how online cultural heritage works can be reused. Find out more about rights statements at rightsstatements.org.

Digital Preservation