2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
Index, Collaborate & Share: Photographs of Servicewomen at LAC
Tuesday October 04, 2022
From 3:30pm to 4:00pm
The Second World War (SWW) was the first time women officially served in the Canadian military in capacities other than nursing, breaking into roles historically held by men. A multi-year project to index an accession of government photographs from the SWW era in an effort to identify servicewomen began in 2018 as an effort to help family members identify their ancestors in photographs held at Library and Archives Canada. This presentation will describe the project with a focus on the outreach component which has in turn lead to opportunities to engage with women veterans and the general public through transcribing text and tagging images using LAC's crowdsourcing tool: Co-lab.
The Second World War (SWW) was the first time women officially served in the Canadian military in capacities other than nursing, breaking into roles historically held by men. A multi-year project to index an accession of government photographs from the SWW era in an effort to identify servicewomen began in 2018 as an effort to help family members identify their ancestors in photographs held at Library and Archives Canada. This presentation will describe the project with a focus on the outreach component which has in turn lead to opportunities to engage with women veterans and the general public through transcribing text and tagging images using LAC's crowdsourcing tool: Co-lab.
