Why digitise? principles in planning and managing a successful digitisation project

New Review of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-52

  Jephcott, Susan ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0010701280     PISSN: 13614533     EISSN: 17407834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614539809516768     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. 22/4 1998. Digitisation Seminar: Issues for managers or why digitise, 22/4, AHDS with The Staff Training Group (University of London Libraries) and the M25 Consortium of HE Libraries. The three workshops
2. 20/10 1998. Going digital, 20/10, AHDS with the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
3. 12/11 1998. Why digitise?, 12/11, AHDS with the University of Leeds Library.
4. Project Planning Guidelines and Checklist (http://ahds.ac.uk/resource/checklist.html), created by Daniel Greenstein of the AHDS Executive, was given to participants on the course and key sections from that document are included in this paper
5. Many case studies were shown in the course of the three workshops including the two chosen for this paper (see references 2 and 10) and the following
6. The Global Immigration Project, Liverpool University Library http://www.liv.ac.uk/Library/libhomep.html (http://www.liv.ac.uk/Library/libhomep.html)
7. British Library of Political & Economic Science Pamphlet Collection http://www.lse.ac.uk/blpes/pamphlets.shtml (http://www.lse.ac.uk/blpes/pamphlets.shtml)
8. Refugee Studies Programme Digital Library, Oxford University http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/digital.htm (http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/digital.htm)
9. The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive, Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ (http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/jtap/)
10. The Canterbury Tales Project, managed by a consortium including the universities of Sheffield and Oxford http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/ctp/ (http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/ctp/)
11. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland Project, The Courtauld, Institute of Art http://britac3.britac.ac.uk/arp/crsbi/index.html (http://britac3.britac.ac.uk/arp/crsbi/index.html)
12. European State Finance Database, Leicester University http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/∼bon/ESFDB/esfdb.html (http://indigo.stile.le.ac.uk/∼bon/ESFDB/esfdb.html)
13. The Gertrude Bell Archive, University of Newcastle Library http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk (http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk)
14. The Electronic Text Centre, University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/acom/leedsetc/index.htm (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/acom/leedsetc/index.htm)
15. The Fawcett Library, London Guildhall University http://www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm (http://www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm)
16. The JISC Image Digitisation project (JIDI) http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/projects/mru.htm#jidi (http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/projects/mru.htm#jidi)
17. Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS) http://hedc.herts.ac.uk/ (http://hedc.herts.ac.uk/)
18. CHAMBERS, S., and PERROW, D., 1998. Project Management Tools and Techniques in U.K. University Libraries, British Library Research and Innovation Report 119, BLRIC.
19. This paper is also described at the University of Newcastle website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/projects/projman/index.htm (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/projects/projman/index.htm)
20. BLACK, K., 1996. Project management for library and information service professionals, ASLIB Know How Guide London: Aslib.
21. JISC Senior Management Briefing Paper 5: Copyright, 1998. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub98/sm05-copyright.html which includes links to papers by Oppenheim, C. on Copyright in HEIs: A Discussion Paper, addressing the relationship between institutions, academics and publishers and Copyright and networking of images
22. JISC Technical Advisory Service on Images (TASI) http://www.tasi.ac.uk (http://www.tasi.ac.uk)
23. With thanks to Jane Williams, Institute for Research and Learning Technology, University of Bristol
24. Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) http://ahds.ac.uk which comprises (http://ahds.ac.uk which comprises)
25. The Executive (King's College, London)
26. The Archaeology Data Service (York University) http://ads.ahds.ac.uk (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk)
27. The History Data Service (The Data Archive, Essex University) http://hds.ahds.ac.uk (http://hds.ahds.ac.uk)
28. The Oxford Text Archive (Oxford University Computing Service) http://ota.ahds.ac.uk (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk)
29. The Performing Arts Data Service (Glasgow University) http://pads.ahds.ac.uk (http://pads.ahds.ac.uk)
30. The Visual Arts Data Service (Surrey Institute of Art and Design) http://vads.ahds.ac.uk (http://vads.ahds.ac.uk)
31. BEAGRIE, N., and GREENSTEIN, D., 1998. A strategic policy for the creation and preservation of digital resources. April http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/framework.htm
32. Creating a Viable Scholarly Data Resource () http://ahds.ac.uk/deposit/viable.html (http://ahds.ac.uk/deposit/viable.html)
33. AHDS Data Depositors’ Guidelines () http://ahds.ac.uk/deposit/how.html (http://ahds.ac.uk/deposit/how.html)
34. Guides to Good Practice (the series, when complete will comprise 16 titles offering guidance to best practice in the creation and use of several types of arts and humanities data resources) () http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html (http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html)
35. Managing Digital Collections: AHDS Policies, Standards and Practices (a compendium of AHDS policies and standards in managing its collections) () http://ahds.ac.uk/public/srg.html (http://ahds.ac.uk/public/srg.html)
36. Internet Library of Early Journals http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/)
37. Case study supplied by Bill Jupp and with thanks to Tracey Stanley, University of Leeds.
38. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/ (http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/)
39. Research Libraries Group (RLG) http://www.rlg.org/preserv/ (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/)
40. The Cedars Project: CURL exemplars in digital archives http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/ (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/)