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"The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is dedicated to the collaborative research, presentation, conservation, and continuity of traditional knowledge and artistry with diverse contemporary cultural communities in the United States and around the world."

This is an online learning guide for (but certainly not limited to) students, teachers, and senior citizens interested in the folk life of Iowa.

The website is an "award-winning online lifelong multimedia learning guide for all ages. A new volume is at www.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife_v2."

"The FRC (Folklike Resource Center) houses an extensive archive containing a wide variety of materials in multiple formats. The project addresses two goals. The first goal involves transferring all of these analog formats into a more stable digital medium. This requires the digitization of thousands of photographs and slides, hundreds of hours of analog audio and video documentation. The second goal - user accessibility. Website visitors will now have unprecedented access to the archive through audio, video, and image-based media. Never before has the material housed in the FRC been available to such a wide audience."