Putting Content Online :A Practical Guide for Libraries ( Chandos Information Professional Series )

Publication subTitle :A Practical Guide for Libraries

Publication series :Chandos Information Professional Series

Author: Jordan   Mark  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2006

E-ISBN: 9781780630984

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781843341772

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781843341772

Subject: TP393.4 international Internet

Keyword: 信息与知识传播,自动化技术、计算机技术

Language: ENG

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Description

This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries’ emerging role as publishers.

  • Highly practical. Explains complex processes, warns of potential challenges and provides advice for solving realistic problems
  • Comprehensive: includes coverage of the range of techniques and strategies for digitizing and organizing material that practitioners can use to plan and implement digitization projects

Chapter

1 Introduction

This book’s intended audiences

The big(ger) picture

A word on terminology

More on digital collections

Libraries as publishers

Some current trends

Keeping current

Conventions used in this book

Notes

2 Preliminary tasks

Rationales for digitising

Defining collection goals, scope, and objectives

Evaluating and selecting source material

Cultural sensitivity and privacy issues

Collection policies

Summary: preliminary tasks

Notes

3 Copyright and digital library collections

National copyright law and digital collections

What libraries can put online

Managing permissions

Additional issues

Summary: making decisions about intellectual property

Further reading

Notes

4 Metadata for digital collections

Types of metadata

Selected major standards

Collection description

Subject access and authority control

Persistent identifiers

Interoperability

Native vs. derived metadata

Sources of metadata

Strategies for metadata creation and maintenance

Summary: making decisions about metadata

Further reading

Notes

5 File formats

Master vs. derivative versions

Open vs. proprietary formats

Formats for still images

Resolution, colour depth and compression

Formats for text

Formats for sound and video

Formats for data sets

Formats for complex documents

Factors in determining which formats to use

Summary: making decisions about file formats

Further reading

Notes

6 Search and display

Still images

Textual documents

Moving images and sound

Data sets

Mixed document collections

Planning your collection’s interface

Summary: making decisions about search and display

Further reading

Notes

7 Content management systems

Types of CMSs

Examples of DLCMSs

Evaluating DLCMSs

Summary: making decisions about content management systems

Further reading

Notes

8 Project management

Sequence and timing

Planning the implementation

Additional planning considerations

Executing the project

Proposal writing

Reporting

Monitoring

Evaluating the production phase of the project

Evaluating the overall project

Evaluating the collection

Multi-institution projects

Summary: managing digital collection projects

Further reading

Notes

9 Project operations

A closer look at staffing

Documentation in project operations

Creating metadata

Quality control

General hardware and software used in project operations

Capturing and converting printed content

Capturing sound and video

Evaluating and acquiring specialised hardware and software

File management

Summary: making decisions about project operations

Further reading

Notes

10 Developing workflows

The workflow development cycle

Outlining techniques

Diagramming techniques

Selected workflows from the literature and the field

A general workflow modelling technique

Summary: developing workflows for digital collections

Further reading

Notes

11 Preservation strategies

The problems

Approaches to digital preservation

OAIS Reference Model

Trusted digital repositories

Preservation metadata

Preservation policies

Practical technologies

Practical things you can do

Summary: making decisions about digital preservation

Further reading

Notes

12 A case study

Description of the collection and the project

Defining the collection’s goals

Evaluating the content and clearing permissions

Planning the project

Developing the workflows

Staffing

Documentation and procedures

Budgeting

Final preparations

Executing the project: doing the work

Evaluating the project

Notes

Index

1 Introduction

2 Preliminary tasks

3 Copyright and digital library collections

4 Metadata for digital collections

5 File formats

6 Search and display

7 Content management systems

8 Project management

9 Project operations

10 Developing workflows

11 Preservation strategies

12 A case study

Index

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