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Creating Digital Collections: A practical guideAllison Zhang, Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC), USA and Don Gourley, Digital Humanities Observatory, Ireland
Chandos Information Professional Series
- illustrates concepts with an on-going case study at the end of each chapter
- provides detailed technical information and practical experience Discusses practitioners’ insight in digitization
- can be used as a guide for creating digital collections
Libraries recognize the importance of digitizing archival material to improve access to and preservation of their special collections. This book provides a step-by-step guide for creating digital collections, including examples and practical tips that have never been published before.
ISBN 1 84334 396 7
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 396 7
September 2008
248 pages 234 x 156mm paperback
£42.50 / US$70.00 / €50.00
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ISBN 1 84334 397 5
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 397 4
September 2008
248 pages 234 x 156mm hardback
£62.50 / US$105.00 / €75.00
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About the authors
Allison Zhang is Manager, Digital Collections Production Center, Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC). Don Gourley is based at the Digital Humanities Observatory, Ireland.
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Contents
Introduction
- What are digital collections?
- Why create digital collections?
- Case study: the Digital Collections Production Center
Planning and managing digitisation projects
- Key components of a digitisation cycle
- Project management
- Developing a project plan
- Case study: DCPC’s planning and management
Selecting material for digitisation
- Differences between selecting traditional material and selecting for digitisation
- Major considerations in developing selection criteria
- Case study: DCPC’s selection policy and service
Metadata strategy
- What is metadata?
- Roles of metadata
- Metadata standards
- Metadata strategy
- Digital object content model
- Case study: DCPC metadata strategies
- Creating digital collections
Digitising material
- Basic concepts for scanning
- Scanning best practices
- Image processing
- Case study: DCPC’s scanning service
Creating metadata
- Content rules for metadata creation
- Standards vs. local decisions
- Controlled vocabularies
- Tools for metadata creation
- Computer-assisted metadata creation
- Metadata crosswalk (data mapping)
- Case study: DCPC’s metadata creation
Designing a user interface for digital collections
- Importance of user interface design
- Related issues of user interface design
- Principles of user interface design
- Process of user interface design and configuration
- Case study: designing the user interface for the DCPC’s digital collections
The complete digitisation process and workflow management
- Workflow management
- Prototyping and quality control
- Maintenance
Digital collections management system
- The digital collections production chain
- Digital collections management system technology
- Storage repository
- Digital collections management system software
- Case study: the DCPC digital collections management system
Selecting software and hardware for digital collections management systems
- Identify organisational requirements and resources
- Develop selection criteria
- Research available systems and equipment
- Evaluate candidates – a checklist
- Hardware selection
- Case study: DCPC software selection for the DCMS
Documentation
- The importance of documentation
- How to document a project and what to document
- Planning documents
- Management documents
- Technical documents
- Statistics
- Case study: DCPC’s documentation
The knowledge and skills required for creating digital collections
- Management
- Material selection
- Scanning
- Metadata
- User interface
- Information technology
- Key qualities
Conclusion