Wabash Valley Visions & Voices: Digital Links

Links to Resources for Digital Projects

List of annotated resources for planning and implementing digital projects.

Websites current as of November 2, 2007. Links open in new window.

Project Planning and Management

AHDS Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice
Covers copyright, digital imaging, standards, project management, and storage and preservation.

American Memory Technical Information
Resources on copyright, metadata, preservation, scanning and conversion, and text encoding/mark-up for collections in the Library of Congress American Memory website. See also the National Digital Library Project Planning Checklist.

Digital Library Federation
Consortium of libraries and other agencies with a mission to enable research through the development of an international network of digital libraries. Information on digital collections, digital production, digital preservation, usage and users, digital library architecture, including reports, guidelines, and standards.

Digital Projects Guidelines, Arizona State Library
PDF of the 2006 digital projects guidelines from the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. The guidelines include project planning, equipment and software, digitization, description, and long-term storage.

Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) document covering principles for collections, objects, metadata, and projects.

IMLS Digital Corner
From the Institute of Museum and Library Services highlighting digital technology programs and accomplishments. Links to related publications, conferences, grant programs, and funded digital projects.

Indiana Memory
Links to PDFs of collection development policy, image scanning standards, and metadata standards.

Inside CDL
Provides access to California Digital Library working documents. Useful categories include Collection Development Process, Digital Library Building Blocks, and Assessment.

NLG Project Planning: A Tutorial
Designed as a tutorial for participants in the National Leadership Grant through the IMLS. The tutorial provides information on defining a project, planning a project, writing a grant application, and carrying out a project.

Resource List for Planning Digital Libraries
List of online resources covering project planning, classification, management, interface design, accessibility, and evaluation.

Washington State Library Digital Best Practices
Divided into six main sections--Project Management, Collection, Technology, Funding, Digital Projects, and Scenarios--this website provides a thorough overview of questions to consider, resources to consult when planning, organizing, and managing a digital project.

Missions Statements and Strategic Plans

Indiana University Digital Library Program
Strategic plan, including mission statement, program purpose, program benefits, goals, participants, audience, and strategic areas for the Indiana University Digital Library Program

UCSD Digital Library Mission Statement and Goals
Mission statement from 2001 for the University of California at San Diego digital library program.

Digitization

Collaborative Digitization Program, Digital Toolbox
Provides information on scanning, metadata, digital audio, EAD, laws, digital preservation, and project management, as well as presentations about the program. Covers best practices, reference guides, handbooks, guides, and resources.

Columbia University Libraries Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging
Criteria for selecting projects and materials for digitization at Columbia University Libraries. Criteria include collection development, collaborative potential, intellectual access, intellectual property rights, preservation, technical feasibility, and intellectual control.

Creating Digital Audio Resources, A Guide to Good Practice
Online guide covering best practice for digitizing audio materials.

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial
Provides information on digital imagining, covering selection, conversion, quality control, metadata, technical infrastructure, presentation, digital preservation, management, and continuing education.

OCLC Digitization Topics and Trends
Covers digitization basics, best practices, standards, training, and working groups.

University of California Selection Criteria for Digitization
Recommended guidelines for selecting materials for digitization at the University of California Libraries, including collection development, preservation/archiving, access, and organizational/funding.

Standards

Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata
Join initiative between the Digital Library Federation and the National Science Digital Library.

Open Archives Form
Tutorial introducing the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Standards at the Library of Congress
Includes Resources Description Formats, Digital Library Standards, Information Resource Retrieval Protocols, and ISO Language Codes.

Metadata

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Developed interoperable online metadata standards. Provides ready reference resources, information on the initiative, and additional resources. See also: DCMI Metadata Terms, DCMI Element Set, and Encoding Guidelines.

Learning Object Metadata Standard
Wiki on the Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard, which is used to describe educational resources.

Metadata Made Simpler
PDF of a NISO publication defining metadata, different metadata element sets used in libraries, and additional information.

Metadata Initiatives
Links to metadata initiatives divided by category.

Metadata Object Description Schema
Official website for MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema), a metadata schema developed by the Library of Congress as a bibliographic element set that can carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records and allows for the creation of original resource description records.

NSDL Metadata Resources Page
Links to introductory resources and other information from the National Science Digital Library on metadata.

Open Archives Initiative
"Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content." Projects include the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

VRA Core 4.0
Data standard established by the Visual Resources Association for the cultural heritage community.

University of Washington Dublin Core Data Dictionaries

Digital Preservation

The Incentives to Preserve Digital Materials: Roles, Scenarios, and Economic Decision-Making
PDF of a research report from OCLC

Library of Congress Digital Preservation
Discusses the importance of digital preservation and includes links to various resources

PREMIS: Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies
PREMIS Working Group documents on digital preservation strategies

Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation
Report on the risk assessment of migrating common file formats. Looks at the risks associated with migration.

Controlled Vocabulary and Thesauri

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online

Getty Union List of Artists Names Online

Library of Congress Authorities

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms (TGM I)

Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre & Physical Characteristics (TGM II)

Organizations

Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

Council on Library and Information Resources

National Science Digital Library

Northeast Document Conservation Center

Tools and Additional Resources

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Builds digital collections and provides information and support to digital library developers.

ContentDM
Digital collection management package for organizing, managing, publishing, and searching digital collections.

Digital Libraries in a Box
Provides components needed to create a digital library, in addition to tutorials, an annotated bibliography, and additional resources.

DLXS (digital library eXtension service)
Suite of tools for the development of digital library collections.

DSpace
Open-source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works.

Fedora Commons
"Fedora Commons is the home of the unique Fedora open source software, a robust integrated repository-centered platform that enables the storage, access and management of virtually any kind of digital content."

Greenstone Digital Library Software
Suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections.

Sun Microsystems Digital Library Toolkit, 3rd edition

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