EPISODE 2: "INSIDE DT" EDITION, Ben Cort Talks Technical Problem Solving in Cultural Heritage Digitization

In this episode of Wider Lens, the first podcast dedicated to cultural heritage digitization, Digital Transitions sits down with Martina Hoffmann, Head of Digitization Services at the Swiss National Library, for a wide-ranging conversation recorded live in front of an international audience. Martina took an unconventional path into the field, arriving not through fine arts or photography but through project administration on one of the Netherlands' first mass digitization initiatives. Fifteen...

EPISODE 3: Michelle Gollehon, Utah Historical Society AI Meets the Archive: How Utah Historical Society Is Using Google Gemini to Unlock 118,000 Card Catalog Records What happens when a digitization project is too big for any human team to tackle and AI becomes the only practical path forward? In this episode of Wider Lens, we sit down with Michelle Gollehon, Digital Asset Specialist at the Utah Historical Society, for a fascinating conversation about one of the most ambitious and innovativ...

Episode 1: Cliff Harrison, Purdue University Library What does it really take to digitize the world’s cultural heritage — at scale, at speed, and at preservation grade? For the inaugural episode of Wider Lens, we’re honored to welcome Cliff Harrison, Senior Manager of Digital Programs at the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, for a wide-ranging conversation about advancing cultural heritage digitization within an academic research library. In this episode, we unpac...