Information Heritage
Humanity's cultural heritage is captured in books, art, and artifacts stored in museums and libraries around the world. Digital information provides an enormous opportunity to preserve and share precious works. EMC has provided more than $20 million in products, services, and financial assistance for digital information heritage worldwide.
The EMC Information Heritage Initiative
EMC's Information Heritage Initiative partners with cultural institutions to capture, store, and share digital images of their priceless collections. Our Professional Services organization assists the institutions pro bono, and we donate our solutions to store and share the digital files. Thousands of artifacts are now preserved for posterity, and are also made available through the Internet. There are currently seven Information Heritage Projects in six countries:
- The Finca Vigia Foundation, Havana, Cuba
- Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, Weimar, Germany
- Cheongju Early Printing Museum, Cheongju City, South Korea
- The John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Leonardo3 SRL, Milan, Italy
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
The EMC Heritage Trust Project
The EMC Heritage Trust Project supports digital curation in local communities. Using the same criteria for excellence that guide the Information Heritage Initiative, the Project awards cash grants of $5,000 to $15,000 to local cultural institutions, archives, or private collections. New grants are awarded annually through an open application process. The 2010 grantees were:
- Guizhou University, College of the Humanities Guizhou, China
- Karveer Nagar Vachan Mandir Kolhapur, India
- WIMSA Digital Library and Equitable Access Project Windhoek, Namibia
- History Meeting House Warsaw, Poland
- ARCHEION: Ontario's Archival Information Network Ontario, Canada
- Univ. of Victoria, Faculty of Education, and Lower Vancouver Island Retired Teachers Assoc. Victoria, Canada
- St. John Fisher College Rochester, N.Y.
