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
This book’s intended audiences
More on digital collections
Conventions used in this book
Rationales for digitising
Defining collection goals, scope, and objectives
Evaluating and selecting source material
Cultural sensitivity and privacy issues
Summary: preliminary tasks
3 Copyright and digital library collections
National copyright law and digital collections
What libraries can put online
Summary: making decisions about intellectual property
4 Metadata for digital collections
Subject access and authority control
Native vs. derived metadata
Strategies for metadata creation and maintenance
Summary: making decisions about metadata
Master vs. derivative versions
Open vs. proprietary formats
Resolution, colour depth and compression
Formats for sound and video
Formats for complex documents
Factors in determining which formats to use
Summary: making decisions about file formats
Mixed document collections
Planning your collection’s interface
Summary: making decisions about search and display
7 Content management systems
Summary: making decisions about content management systems
Planning the implementation
Additional planning considerations
Evaluating the production phase of the project
Evaluating the overall project
Evaluating the collection
Multi-institution projects
Summary: managing digital collection projects
A closer look at staffing
Documentation in project operations
General hardware and software used in project operations
Capturing and converting printed content
Capturing sound and video
Evaluating and acquiring specialised hardware and software
Summary: making decisions about project operations
The workflow development cycle
Selected workflows from the literature and the field
A general workflow modelling technique
Summary: developing workflows for digital collections
11 Preservation strategies
Approaches to digital preservation
Trusted digital repositories
Practical things you can do
Summary: making decisions about digital preservation
Description of the collection and the project
Defining the collection’s goals
Evaluating the content and clearing permissions
Documentation and procedures
Executing the project: doing the work
3 Copyright and digital library collections
4 Metadata for digital collections
7 Content management systems
11 Preservation strategies