Louisiana State Museum

The Louisiana State Museum will catalog, digitize, and disseminate its 17,402-item New Orleans Jazz Collection, which includes musical instruments, photographs, recordings, film, and sheet music. To share the objects with the widest possible audience while maintaining the highest standards of collections stewardship, the museum will hire a full-time photographer to capture digital images; verify and update catalog data in the museum's collection database; populate the image metadata fields with data from its collection management system; and generate derivative image files for use on the museum's website for delivery via in-gallery devices. The project will improve stewardship while broadening access to the collection for the direct benefit of the general public, students, scholars who wish to work with the original objects, and to educators who seek a new body of primary sources for enriching courses across the humanities.