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Maine Memory Network launched



Maine Historical Society to launch Maine Memory Network, a statewide digital museum & educational service

The Maine Memory Network is a statewide digital museum and educational service designed to make rare and often inaccessible materials -- the rich treasury of Maine's historical documents, images, maps, photographs, and stories -- available to the public at large. Based on the many-to-many model of information sharing, the Maine Memory Network is an innovation in internet technology unique in the country.

The Maine Memory Network (MMN) is a project of the Maine Historical Society, the state's most comprehensive repository for the study of Maine history. Though initially conceived as a way to share the Society's own vast wealth, the project quickly expanded to include the potential participation of all collecting/interpreting institutions in Maine -- museums, archives, libraries, historical societies, and more.

With the help of seed funding from the Maine State Legislature and the New Century Community Program, the project has been in development for over a year with the help of Aurora and Quanta Productions, a Portland-based new media development firm (www.auroraquanta.com). The site will be available at www.mainememory.net .

Maine Historical Society has been recently awarded a Technology and Opportunities grant for $375,000 from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce. This will allow the project to embark on a process of partnering with historical and cultural institutions across the state, to select, digitize, upload and catalog historical source documents for inclusion in the Maine Memory Network.


Nancy Noble
Archivist/Cataloger
Maine Historical Society
485 Congress St.
Portland, ME 04101-3498
207-774-1822
207-775-4301 (fax)
nnoble@mainehistory.org
www.mainehistory.org