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Putting Content Online: A practical guide for libraries

Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Chandos Information Professional Series

…a timely publication specifically aimed at libraries and librarians involved in digitising projects or planning such initiatives.
Online Information Review

...provides advice for solving realistic problems.
Online Information Review

…covers a comprehensive range of topics related to digitalisation of products.
Online Information Review

 - 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

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.

Readership: LIS practitioners, students.

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About the author

Mark Jordan is Head of Library Systems at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and has published widely.

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Contents

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

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

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

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

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

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

Content management systems
 - Types of CMSs
 - Examples of DLCMSs
 - Evaluating DLCMSs
 - Summary: making decisions about content management systems
 - Further reading
 - Notes

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

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

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

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

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