Canadiana Online MARC Records Now Available
CRKN is pleased to release 75,497 MARC records for the Canadiana Online collection. MARC records are now available for 85% of the monographs currently in the Canadiana Online collection. Early in 2019, MARC records for the remaining Canadiana Online monographs, as well as for periodicals, government publications, and newspapers in the collection will also be available.
To download the MARC records, visit www.crkn-rcdr.ca/en/marc-records.
Platform Technical Sub-Committee (PTSC)
The role of the Platform Technical Sub-Committee (PTSC) is to provide CRKN staff with feedback, advice, and recommendations on policies, practices, technologies, infrastructure, and approaches to digital collections management.
Heritage Content Priorities Task Group (HCPTG)
The purpose of the Heritage Content Priorities Task Group (HCPTG) is to develop principles and criteria that CRKN staff may use to evaluate and prioritize heritage content for digitization and ingestion, conversion and augmentation of the Canadiana collections. View the HCPTG Final Report.
Over 60 Million Pages of Digitized Canadian Documentary Heritage Soon To Be Available At No Charge
The Canadiana collections of archival material, government publications, periodicals, monographs, annuals, and newspapers will be free to access as of January 1, 2019
CRKN Strategic Planning Stakeholder and User Consultation
Please join us for a two-hour online consultation on CRKN's 2019-2024 strategic plan. Help us to build our plan and strategy for the next five years and identify priorities as they relate to the digitization, preservation, and access to digital documentary heritage.
Through this consultation we will be exploring questions such as:
2019 CRKN Access to Knowledge Conference
The CRKN Access to Knowledge Conference was held on October 16-18, 2019 at the Westin Hotel. Read a recap of the conference and watch videos of the Transforming Scholarly Communications and Digital Heritage sessions.
ORCID-CA National Online Forum
Join us for the first ORCID-CA National Online Forum on October 31st from 12:30 pm-2:30 pm EST.
Launched in May 2017, ORCID-CA provides Canadian institutions and organizations with premium membership to ORCID at a reduced cost as well as access to dedicated support services.
Benoit Séguin Named Recipient of the 2018 Ron MacDonald Distinguished Service Award
Ottawa, October 2, 2018 – The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) is pleased to announce Benoit Séguin as the recipient of the 2018 Ron MacDonald Distinguished Service Award. The award will be presented on October 17, 2018, in Vancouver, British Columbia, as part of CRKN’s annual general meeting.
CRKN Welcomes Rachel Neilson as Digital Services Intern
CRKN is pleased to welcome Rachel Neilson as Digital Services Intern. This position is made possible through the Young Canada Works program administered by the Canadian Council of Archives. Rachel will work alongside CRKN’s licensing team on member-focused digital tasks, as well as on various projects related to Canadiana services. Prior to joining CRKN, Rachel worked for a year as the Collections Assistant at the Audio-Visual Resource Centre (AVRC) at Carleton University working on a digital collections project.
Joint NHDS & CRKN Workshop on Documentary Heritage
Jointly co-hosted by the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) and Canadiana, the platform and digitization services of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), the goal of this workshop is to highlight the digitization and preservation work of the NHDS and Canadiana, and gather end-users perspectives on how the NHDS and Canadiana should evolve to meet user needs.
This event will: