The Heritage Community Foundation links people with heritage through discovery and learning. Its over-arching goal is for heritage to be valued by everyone. It exists:
To be a strong public voice for heritage
To establish programs to promote identity, research and literacy through heritage study and
To build resources to sustain heritage projects and activities.
The Heritage Community Foundation:
Develops educational programs
Develops resource materials to bring heritage to the mainstream and
Creates opportunities to celebrate heritage.
The development of excellent online content is a core programming activity of the Foundation.
All of our web products can be accessed through our gateway site
at http://www.albertasource.ca
Dr. Davies is a material culture specialist and was the Science,
Technology, Industry and material Culture editor of The Canadian
Encyclopedia. She has worked in the heritage field for more than
25 years as a researcher, Executive Director of Museums Alberta and as
Executive Director of the Heritage Community Foundation. She has
developed, resourced, and implemented a range of website development
and cultural digitization projects.
Responsible for ensuring quality control, timely delivery and adherence to Heritage Community Foundation website standards on all our web projects, Kim
has been with the Foundation since 1999 and is the lead of the Foundation's web development team.
She has a Master's degree in History from the University of Alberta
and is currently finishing her Computer Systems Technology diploma at
NAIT. She has both content and technical expertise and has been hired to lead digitization projects.
David is a former Research Associate at the Provincial Museum of Alberta. He is a specialist in community studies and has done extensive oral history work with David Goa, Curator of Folk and Religious Life, with respect to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Alberta's Islamic community and other ethnocultural communities. He has been involved in all of the Heritage Community Foundation's websites in ensuring accuracy and authority of content.
As the lead of the Communications Team, Andrea works on all aspects
of both internal and external communications. She has also
worked on the content side of several of the Foundation's
websites and is in charge of securing the copyright permissions with
the organizations multitude of partners and content contributors.
After completing a B.A. at the University of Alberta in Canadian
history, Stuart spent two years interpreting local history at Fort
Edmonton Park. There, he further developed an appreciation for
heritage architecture. He now owns a heritage home, which he is
lovingly restoring, in Edmonton's historic Highlands. To help in the
restoration process he completed the Millwork and Carpentry
program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He is
also now heading development of a web site for the Highlands
Historical Foundation. To make things even more complicated, he is
an active musician who performs and records regularly with his band.
Plus, he is also now working towards a Masters in Library and
Information Studies degree. He hopes to continue with music and work
in the heritage industry as a researcher or archivist.
Davor began work with the Heritage Community Foundation as an intern and
has worked on several of our Canada's Digital Collections websites and
oversaw the digitization process for the CCOP Edmonton: The Making
of a City Cultural Digitization Project. He has a Computer
Engineering Technology diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of
Technology and has extensive knowledge and experience in working with
multiple database platforms including SQL and Access. He will liaise
with DevStudios to provide technical/database support and quality
assurance as determined by CCOP.
Dwayne first begun work as an intern with the Foundation. He has just recently completed his Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology
with honours from the Northern Alberta Institute of
Technology and has extensive knowledge and experience in working with
multiple web development software packages including FrontPage,
JavaScript, SQL, Access, VB and COM. Know Dwayne is Senior Webmaster now at the
Foundation and provides other web consulting with
Nano Response.
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