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Starting a Digitization Center

Cokie Anderson and David Maxwell, Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center, USA

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - stresses the importance of collaboration, tips for finding partners and working with others
 - serves as a practical handbook and it acts as a manual, and guides readers to finding more advanced resources
 - focuses on creating a good digitisation center/project with extremely limited funds and/or low budget
 - appeals to beginners and smaller institutions

Starting a Digitization Center provides a complete overview of the digitization process and how to set up a digitization center, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online. It covers: Essential steps and standards, acquiring the essentials needed for imaging/digitizing, including equipment, software, hardware, personnel and housing, finding partners/collaborators, locating training and online resources, obtaining funding, setting up guidelines, formats, websites and putting collections online.

Readership: Librarians, archivists and curators in small and medium sized institutions. Students on library and information courses will also find it of interest.

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About the authors

Cokie Anderson has been an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University since 2000, and directs the University Library’s Electronic Publishing Center. She is one of the founding members of , a collaborative effort by Oklahoma libraries, archives, and museums to digitise cultural materials. David C. Maxwell is the Coordinator at Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center.

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Contents

Introduction
 - Why digitize?
 - Deciding to digitize
 - Formulating a digitization policy
 - Selection criteria
 - Summary and resources

Getting started
 - Housing
 - Personnel
 - Training
 - Summary and resources

Hardware
 - Purchasing a computer
 - Purchasing a scanner
 - Digital camera
 - Other hardware considerations
 - Summary and resources

Software
 - Types of software required
 - Purchasing software
 - Summary and resources

The digitization process
 - Flowchart of the digitization process
 - Selection of materials
 - Preservation/conservation of originals
 - Standards
 - Information architecture
 - Scanning/rekeying
 - Imaging
 - Conversion to electronic text
 - Proofreading
 - XML markup
 - Metadata
 - Databases
 - Naming and saving files
 - Workflow
 - Putting files online
 - Summary and resources

Collaboration: ways of working together
 - Why collaborate?
 - Ways to collaborate
 - Major collaborative projects
 - Challenges
 - Guidelines for working together
 - Summary and resources

Funding
 - Digitization costs
 - Funding sources
 - Summary and resources

Putting collections online
 - Website design
 - Design basics
 - Publicizing your website
 - Keeping statistics
 - Summary and resources

Preservation planning
 - Standards
 - File formats
 - Archival backup/storage
 - Migration, refreshing, and emulation
 - Metadata
 - Ongoing costs
 - Summary and resources