Where to search for the additional information?


Solutions presented in this course were intended to present simple solutions. In case of more complicated issues and large-scale projects you should refer to more general documents describing digitisation projects in the broader perspective. Internet is full of various sources of information about the digitisation, below you will find a list of all major resources referenced in this course, most of them should be also present in the link database developed for the purpose of this course.

Projects

  1. Henry III Fine Rolls Project - The National Archives and King's College London, [link]
  2. Discover Domesday - The National Archive, UK, [link]
  3. Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program - Australian National Library, [link]
  4. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive - University of Oxford, [link]
  5. The Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR, [link]
  6. "The University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry", [link]
  7. Project Gutenberg, [link]
  8. World Digital Library, [link]
  9. Google Books search, [link]
  10. Internet Archive, [link]
  11. The Oxford Text Archive, [link]
  12. British history online, [link]
  13. Manuscriptorium : The European Digital Library of Manuscripts, [link]
  14. DARWIN200, [link]
  15. DART-European E-thesis Portal, [link]
  16. International Children’s Digital Library, [link]
  17. Digital Library of Wielkopolska, [link]
  18. PIONIER Digital Libraries Federation, [link]

Best practice

  1. "Handbook on Cost Reduction in Digitisation", Simon Tanner, Minerva project [link]
  2. "Moving theory into practice, Digital imaging tutorial", Cornel University Library [link]
  3. "The Current State-of-art in Newspaper Digitization, A Market Perspective", Edwin Klijn [link]
  4. "To Outsource or to Digitise In-house?", JISC Media blog [link]
  5. "Digital Imaging Guidelines for Hudson River Valley Heritage", Hudson River Valley Heritage, [link]
  6. "A framework for distributed digital object services", Robert Kahn and RobertWilensky [link]
  7. "Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials: Creation of Raster Image Master Files",
    Federal Agencies Digitization Initiative - Still Image Working Group,[link]
  8. "Interoperability. What is it and Why should I want it?", Paul Miller [link]
  9. "Good Practice Guide for Developers of Cultural Heritage Web Services", UKOLN, [link]
  10. "A framework of guidance for building good digital collections", NISO, [link]
  11. "Still Images: Copyright and Digital Media", JISC Digital Media, [link]
  12. "Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes", Minerva project, [link]
  13. "Understanding Metadata", NISO Press, [link]
  14. "Cross-media advice: An Introduction to Metadata", JISC Media blog [link]
  15. "Controlling your Language: a Directory of Metadata Vocabularies", JISC Media blog [link]
  16. "Metadata standards and Interoperability", JISC Media blog, [link]
  17. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, [link]
  18. "Nine questions to guide you in choosing a metadata schema", Marie R. Kennedy, [link]
  19. "Using Dublin Core - The Elements", DCMI, [link]
  20. "Using Dublin Core - Dublin Core Qualifiers", DCMI, [link]
  21. "Don’t make me think!", Steve Krug [link]

Specifications

  1. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative : Metadata Terms, specification, [link]
  2. Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), specification, [link]
  3. OAI-PMH specification, [link]
  4. "The Digital Library Reference Model", DELOS, [link]
  5. "Open Archival Information System" (OAIS), ISO standard, [link]
  6. CIDOC CRM, ISO standard [link]
  7. Categories for the Description of Works of Arts (CDWA), [link]
  8. Metadata Object Description Schema, [link]
  9. General International Standard Archival Description, [link]
  10. Encoded Archival Description, [link]

Europeana-related documents

  1. "Europeana Public Domain Charter", Europeana Foundation, [link]
  2. "i2010: Digital Libraries", European Commision, [link]
  3. "Europeana Outline Functional Specification (D2.5), Version 1.7, 1 March 2009", [link]
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