A digital library project on a shoestring

Library Collections, Acquisition and Technical Services

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 199-206

  Woodley, Mary S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital archive; Digital library; Metadata standards and workflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036387707     PISSN: 14649055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1464-9055(02)00252-X     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Fulton W. The plains of Id, book review of The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb, by Kevin Roderick. Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles, Calif.; September 9, 2001. It was fortuitous that Kevin Roderick's new history was released a week before our opening. The Library was able to take advantage of the timing with our opening ceremonies.
2. Check the Website for the IML for more information: http://www.imls.gov/
3. The LSTA project page can be found at: http://www.library.ca.gov/html/grants.html. Information about the grant awards are available at http://www.library.ca.gov/assets/acrobat/DESCRIPTION.pdf
4. LSTA Grant F-7, FY 2000/01, WP99, Grant Award #40-5208. The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services support the project under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
5. I would like to thank Tony Gardner and Robert Marshall for sharing their experiences with me.
6. California Digital Library standards for scanning, digital storage and metadata can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/CDLObjectStd-2001.pdf. California State Library metadata standards are at http://www.library.ca.gov/assets/acrobat/metadocfinalrev.PDF).
7. California State University, Northridge, University Library. SFV digital archive project: best practice for metadata elements. Last updated September 12, 2001. Available: http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/SFVBestPractice.html.
8. Woodley, Mary S. The San Fernando Valley History Digital Project: a collaborative digital project between local historical societies and a university library. Presented as a poster session at DC2001, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's annual meeting, October 22-26, Tokyo, Japan. Available in DC2001 online proceedings: http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/
9. Estimating the costs for a digital project may seem like a moving target. For help consult the RLG tools for digital imaging (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/RLGtools.html) including their Worksheet for estimating digital reformatting costs.
10. The Colorado Digitization Project toolbox (http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/toolbox.html) provides links to software vendors and digital imaging services. A good summary of how to evaluate vendors: Gertz, Janet. Vendor relations, in Handbook for digital projects: a management tool for preservation and access. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000. p. 141-153. Available: http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm
11. We chose CONTENTdm (http://contentdm.com/), which provided us a package based on the size of the database and three years of software support and updates.
12. http://digital-library.csun.edu. Information about the project, including standards and workflow, is available at the Website: http://digital-library.csun.edu/about.html.