The Wood Buffalo Military Museum in Fort McMurray, Alberta, is working on digitizing its vast collection of artifacts, including documents and books, to preserve them for future generations. The museum's collection specialist, Geoffrey Jones, highlights the importance of cataloguing the thousands of items, ranging from a Chieftain battle tank to wartime propaganda leaflets, while ensuring public access to these historical pieces.
The Wood Buffalo Military Museum in Fort McMurray, Alta., has thousands of artifacts. Cataloguing them is a priority. The museum is working on digitizing its collection of documents and books, which can be fragile. Yet it still wants its artifacts to be seen by the public.Geoffrey Jones, a collections specialist at the Wood Buffalo Military Museum Centre, viewing the scanned version of a leaflet addressed to German soldiers.
The leaflet bears a facsimile signature of Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.This leaflet is one of thousands of artifacts in the museum's collection. Jones can't produce an exact figure — "We need to get that number pinned down," he says. Cataloguing the collection is one of the museum's top priorities.
Geoffrey Jones placing a copy of Canada in Khaki, one of the books he's digitizing, under a scanner. Documents and books can be considerably more fragile, especially if they haven't been properly preserved before arriving at the museum. Touching them directly should be limited, or avoided completely. Oils in human skin can cause documentation to age and break down."The trade-off being, of course, that when you do that, you are losing some of your dexterity," he said.
The museum displays an RCMP buffalo coat that museum founder and president Dale Bendfeld found in Fort Chipewyan, Alta."One of the long-term goals we have is to get the right stuff, to not only digitize things, but also to save these types of artifacts for future generations, because no one will ever see these types of jackets again."
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