Miami, City of (City of Miami, Historic Virginia Key Beach Park Trust)

The City of Miami will promote the significance of its Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, an 82-acre indoor/outdoor open air museum. The collection holdings of the site will be archived, preserved, conserved, and digitally cataloged and placed online to ensure their survival and availability. Physical archival materials will be scanned and digitized to be added to a searchable database. Existing interview recordings will also be digitized and broken into segments with attached metadata. Because the holdings are currently neither categorized, nor archived, nor accessible electronically, it is difficult to locate information within them. The grantee will raise awareness about the availability of these resources, and they will track catalog visitors to measure the use of these historic resources.