Collaborations

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office

In Fall 2023, IDEx initiated a partnershipn with the the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) Training Division to digitally curate and preserve a historical collection that holds more than 80,000 individual archivel items, ranging from the late 19th century to the 1990s. The project involved digitizing, categorizing, and archiving correspondence, jail intake ledgers, testimonies, employee records, mugshots and crime scene photos spanning more than a century. All the digitized items were entered into a centralized relational database which facilitates search, cross-reference, and analysis of the data, serving as an invaluable resource for investigating cold cases, studying the development of criminal justice procedures and community histories, especially providing new insights on the troubled years of the late 40s, 50s and 60s. As a product of their sorting and scanning IDEx team members have been able to make preliminary connections between case documents that had been separated during the original packing of the materials. 

In addition to digitizing the archival collection the IDEx team 3D scanned 78 historical artifacts using an array of advanced digital imaging technologies producing an online collection of 3D models including vintage uniforms and equipment. The IDEx team also created a virtual tour of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s History Center in Ybor City increasing accessibility to this historic venue.