Practical Steps Towards Your Local and/or Regional Digitalisation Project (presentation)

Practical Steps Towards Your Local
and/or Regional Digitalisation Project

Laurie N. Taylor, PhD
Laurien@ufl.edu
University of Florida Libraries

Reasons

* For Digital Libraries: full, open access materials online
within organised, described collections

* For Preservation: physical library services online, may
include Digital Libraries as a service.

* For New Creative Projects: exhibits, websites...

* For Commercial Uses

General Steps Towards Building a Digital Library

* Defining Infrastructure: tools for digitalisation, digital library online
space
Defining Projects: selecting manageable & contextualized projects
Digitizing Materials: Copyright, creating metadata, digitizing, loading
online, and organizing
Building Context: Exhibits, themes, and more
Collaboration: Building additional context and scope for development
& promotion
Planning: For continued growth and more connections
Promotion: Promoting each collection and each project and
explaining how they develop the Library as each phase is finished

* Assessment/Feedback

Infrastructure Considerations

* Display / Usability: for internal development and patrons
* Access: open or restricted
* Sustainability / Preservation
Reputation and capability of service providers, number and size
of install base (for sustainability and shared improvements)
Equipment and training

- Ability to migrate, add collaborators, move content

Defining Infrastructure, from Part to Whole

* Define long term project goals
* Define immediate project for
development
* Define stakeholders

Points to Remember

* Synergy: digital collections
are the sum of their parts
and their connections

* Discreteness: each item in
a digital collection exists
on its own

* Modularity: and each item
exists in combination /
reconfiguration with the
others

Collaboration Considerations
* Higher costs if independent
* Rights and ownership; any
limitations?

* Attribution / Recognition of
Contribution
* Benefits of Collaboration:
preservation, sustainability,
recognition, enhancement of
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Project Overview
Recommended Equipment and Software
Software Toolkit
Selection and Copyright
Preparing for Digitization
Basic Theory and Specifications
Scanning
Image Manipulation
Performing Quality Control
: Web Presence
: Archiving
: Reference Resources
: dLOC Glossary
: Metadata Overview
: Toolkit Installation and Configuration

Beginning Digitalisation

* Select tools/equipment
* Select relevant standards and ways to
support
* Select equipment for housing the Digital
Library
* Hire or train personnel

Digitalisation Processing

Project scale and initial material type will
determine many choices.

Equipment
Photos: flatbed scanners, relatively
smaller server space
Maps and newspapers: larger
scanners, need zoom technology and
more server space
Books: specialized scanners,
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