UID:
edoccha_9960073519302883
Format:
1 online resource (369 p.)
ISBN:
1-78063-098-0
Series Statement:
Chandos Information Professional Series
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; About the author; 1 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; 2 Preliminary tasks; Rationales for digitising; Defining collection goals, scope, and objectives; Evaluating and selecting source material; Cultural sensitivity and privacy issues; Collection policies
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Summary: preliminary tasksNotes; 3 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; 4 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
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Summary: making decisions about metadataFurther reading; Notes; 5 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; 6 Search and display; Still images; Textual documents; Moving images and sound; Data sets; Mixed document collections; Planning your collection's interface
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Summary: making decisions about search and displayFurther reading; Notes; 7 Content management systems; Types of CMSs; Examples of DLCMSs; Evaluating DLCMSs; Summary: making decisions about content management systems; Further reading; Notes; 8 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
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Further readingNotes; 9 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; 10 Developing workflows; The workflow development cycle; Outlining techniques; Diagramming techniques; Selected workflows from the literature and the field
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A general workflow modelling technique
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84334-176-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84334-177-8
Language:
English
