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Resources for Digital Project Planning

This page provides links supporting Carol Hixson's session entitled "A Chicken or an Egg : Planning Your Digital Project," presented as part of the Saskatchewan Libraries Conference Pre-Conference Digitization 101 Workshop, on May 3, 2007 and available in Scholars' Bank in the author's collection at: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/990

Accessibility Issues, Site Design, Software, and Evaluation of Digital Collections

• DELOS Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries (Oct. 2004)
• "Digital image library development in academic environment: designing and testing usability," Claudia Roda ... et al., OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 21, Issue 4, p. 264-284 (2005)
• Evaluating Digital Libraries: A User-Friendly Guide / Thomas Reeves, Xornam Apedoe,  and Young Hee Woo (2003)
• Interaction Modeling for the Design of Digital Libraries / UCLIC.
• "Some considerations when selecting digital library software," Frank H. Cervone, OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 22, Issue 2, p. 107-110 (2006)
• Study Information : Canada's Digital Collections Program, Evaluation of / Industry Canada (2002-2003)
• Web Design References / University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Copyright and Digital Rights Management

• Canada
  • Access Copyright
  • Canadian Intellectual Property Office
  • CARL-ABRC Copyright Home
  • Creative Commons Canada
  • Michael Geist's Blog
• United States
  • Association of Research Libraries Copyright Home
  • Copyright and Fair Use / ALA.
  • Copyright information for Educators / University of Washington.
  • Copyright Website
  • Copyown
  • Creative Commons
  • DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act ) EDUCAUSE Resource
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
  • United States Copyright Office

Digital Preservation

• Digital Preservation / Digital Library Federation (2002)
• Digital Preservation Home / Library of Congress.
• Digital Preservation and Copyright (2003) / Peter B. Hirtle.
• Digital Preservation Coalition Home
  • DPC/PADI What's New in Digital Preservation / comp. by Gerard Clifton (National Library of Australia) and Michael Day (UKOLN) (updated several times a year: select desired issue)
  • DPC/OCLC Technology Watch Report: The Open Archival Information System Reference Model / Brian F. Lavoie, OCLC Office of Research (January 2004)
  • Handbook
  • Major Reports on Digital Preservation, Curation, and Collections
• Digital Preservation Management : Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems / Cornell University Online Tutorial (2003)
• The Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials : Roles, Scenarios and Economic Decision-Making / Brian F. LaVoie (OCLC, 2003)
• Preservation in the Digital World / Paul Conway, Head, Preservation Department, Yale University Library (March 1996)
• Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) / Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, NASA (January 2002)
• Trusted Digital Repositories : Attributes and Responsibilities : An OCLC-RLG Report (May 2002)

Image Collections : Standards and Practices

• "Analyzing the Subject of a Picture: A Theoretical Approach, " Sara Shatford, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 6(3), Spring 1986.
• Archival Digital Image Creation (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
• Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images / Visual Resources Association.
• Guides to quality in visual resource imaging. (Washington. D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000)
• JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries
• SEPIADES Recommendations for Cataloguing Photographic Collections
• "Subject Access to Art Images," Sara Shatford Layne, in Introduction to Art Image Access : Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies, Getty Research Institute, 2002.
• TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images)
• TIFF 6.0 Specifications. (Geneva: International Telecommunication Union, 2002)

Metadata

• Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images. (Boston: Harvard University, Library Digital Initiative, 2000)
• ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
• "Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas," Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel, Ariadne, 25, September 2000.
• DCMI Bibliography / creator: Corey Harper.
• Dublin Core Best Practices / CDP Working Group (version 2.1.1 September 2006)
• Dublin Core Usage Guide
• Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
• Dublin Core DCMI Administrative Metadata / Creators: Jytte Hansen and Leif Andresen
• Guidelines for Implementing Dublin Core in XML / Andy Powell, Pete Jonhston (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2003)
• Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. / by Murtha Baca. (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute)
• National Library of New Zealand Metadata Standards Framework – Preservation Metadata (June 2003)
• NEDLIB (2000) "Metadata for Long Term Preservation"
• NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema (MIX)
• NISO Z39.87: Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
• NSDL (National Science Digital Library) Metadata Resources Page
• OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)
• OCLC Digital Archive
  • OCLC Digital Archive Metadata Elements (April 18, 2003)
• PREMIS (PREservation Metadata : Implementation Strategies) : OCLC RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group
• Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections / National Library of Australia (1999)
• Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art: a White Paper by the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata (January 2001)

Miscellaneous

• Draft Benchmark for Digital Reproductions of Printed Books and Serial Publications (July 2001)
• Knowledge Lost in Information : Report of the NSF Workshop on Research Directions for Digital Libraries (June 2003)
• Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group
• National Library of New Zealand : Digital Library Development Review (July 2003) / Dr. Seamus Ross (PDF 88 p.)
• "The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries," Howard Besser, First Monday, Vol. 7, No. 6, June 2002.
• OAIster
• Open Archives Initiative
• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

Planning and Project Management

• Building and Sustaining Digital Collections : Models for Libraries and Museums / Council on Library and Information Resources (2001)
• Business planning for cultural heritage institutions : a framework and resource guide to assist cultural heritage institutions with business planning for sustainability of digital asset management programs / Liz Bishoff and Nancy Allen (Washington, DC : Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004)
• "Creating a Framework for Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections," Timothy W. Cole, First Monday, Vol. 7, No. 5, May 2002.
• Creating and Managing Digital Content / Canadian Heritage Information Network.
• Digital Library Federation Standards and Practices
• Handbook for Digital Projects (NEDCC)
• Managing Digital Collections : AHDS Policies, Standards and Practices / Arts and Humanities Data Service (2001)
• NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (2002)
• Planning Digital Projects for Historical Collections / New York Public Library (1999)
• "Project Management and Institutional Collaboration in Libraries," Nancy J. Bunch, Technical Services Quarterly;  Vol. 24, Issue 1, p. 17-36, 2006.
• Project Management Software Directory
• "Standard methodology in digital library project management," H. Frank Cervone, OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 23, Issue 1, 2007.
   

Selection Criteria

• Decision Tree for Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention / Digital Preservation Coalition
• The Kovacs guide to electronic library collection development : essential core subject collections, selection criteria, and guidelines / Diane K. Kovacs and Kara L. Robinson (New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2004)
• Selecting Research Collections for Digitization / Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham, (Washington, DC : Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998)
• "Selecting Research Collections for Digitization: Applying the Harvard Model," Kristine Brancolini, Library Trends;  Vol. 48, Issue 4, p. 783, Spring 2000.

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