The Digital Ark

Ed Coderre of The Digital Ark is attending the Museum Summit AI, where the latest innovations in AI and cultural heritage are taking center stage. Stay tuned as he shares some of his favorite projects from the event—showcasing how AI is shaping the future of museums!

The Digital Ark (TDAC) partnered with Adam Matthew on The Olympic Movement project to digitize almost 40,000 pages from the collections at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). We setup a state-of-the-art photo digitization studio on-site at the USOPC Archives in Colorado Springs, CO comprising a team of 3 photographers and digital imaging technicians along with 3 copy stands in order to capture these essential collections. TDAC worked hand-in-hand with USOPC team members to complete this digitization project in 3 months. The USOPC’s historic and rare archival materials comprised loose and bound manuscripts, scrapbooks, oversized items, correspondence, newspapers, official reports, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed books dating from 1896-1996. These high-resolution archival digital images were provided to USOPC as digital preservation master file, and low-resolution derivative images were provided to AM for online publishing. The images from this digitization project are available online in The Olympic Movement:

https://www.theolympicmovement.amdigital.co.uk

https://www.amdigital.co.uk/collection/the-olympic-movement

We’re looking forward to supporting our Director of Operations, Mike Boyle, who will be performing a set of music at the Museum of Science, Boston for their New England Synthesizer Festival on February 22. Moonbeam is a collaboration between Mike Boyle and Jake Feen, based in Connecticut. Wish we could be there in person to take in the tunes—hope you enjoy the Festival!

https://mos.org/explore/subspace/ne-synth-fest-winter-2024

We’re very proud to introduce Paola Brito as part of our amazing team! She’s from Equador and recently moved to Rhode Island where she now lives with her family. She brings a wide array of experience including photography, video editing, online archives, and social media/websites. We’re excited to have her as one of our integral team members in our RI studio.