The Ottawa Trip was wonderful. We have confirmed that Canadiana.org will host our Canada 150: Canada’s Untold Stories digital repository. That means we have the two safest locations for our collection: published materials in the Canada 150 Series held by Library and Archives Canada and the digital repository with Canadiana.org.Here is how Canadiana describes itself:Canadiana.org preserves Canada's published history and makes it accessible online. Working closely with major memory institutions, we identify, catalogue, digitize and store documentary heritage—books, newspapers, periodicals, images and nationally-significant archival materials—in specialized research databases. Our flagship platform, Early Canadiana Online, delivers 4 million pages of digital heritage content to Canada’s research institutions, schools, and public libraries. The Canadiana Discovery Portal is a federated search platform which uses metadata (cataloguing information) to connect the sum of Canada’s digital heritage into a single searchable portal. Some 40 major memory institutions have joined, providing access to 65 million pages.Click on their links to see which university and provincial archives are members. This really is the best spot in Canada to house our digital repository and we couldn’t be happier to partner with them.The next step is to raise approximately $250,000 to build the collection’s database, website and cell phone portals. We hope to collect over 1,000,000 short stories with photos and/or videos plus another 150,000 digital copies of a family or communities letters, journals, diaries, annotated photo albums and scrapbooks. That is a huge database that Canadiana is used to building. But it takes time, hardware and expertise so this will be our first major funding effort.Remember to check out the draft templates for the website and mobile app portals at: http://www.canadiana.ca/sites/pub.canadiana.ca/files/Canada150_landing_page.pnghttp://www.canadiana.ca/sites/pub.canadiana.ca/files/Canada150_input_page.pngIf you know of any corporation that would like to have naming rights for the Canada 150 Digital Collection please have them contact Harry van Bommel at: harry@legacies.caMore great things ahead.View article...