Campaign for the collection of Good practices in digitisation

MINERVA has started a new campaign for the collection of good practices in digitisation and information on competence centres. Do you think that your institution is a competence centre? That the project you are managing is a good practice? That you can share with the MINERVA community your lessons learned? Send us the relevant forms.

At the Alicante "Workshop on digitisation good practice", with the support of the Spanish Presidency and Minerva, 42 examples were collected by the National Representative Group in May 2002.

Now, Minerva is starting a new collection of good practices, on the basis of the ten cathegories selected in the Good practice Handbook, version 1.2, published in November 2003.

1. Digitisation Project Planning (The Reasons for the project, Human Resources, Research, Risks)
2. Selecting Source Material for Digitisation (Establish Selection Criteria, Selection Against the Criteria)
3. Preparation for Digitisation (Hardware; Software; Environment)
4. Handling of Originals (Moving and Manipulating Original Material)
5. The Digitisation Process (Using Scanners; Using Digital Cameras; Software Applications for Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
6. Preservation of Digital Master Material (File Formats; Media Choices; Migration Strategies)
7. Meta-Data (The Scope of Meta-Data Used for Object Description; Appropriate Meta-Data Standards)
8. Publication (Image Processing; 3D and Virtual Reality Issues; Online Publication)
9. IPR and Copyright (Establishing Copyright; Safeguarding Copyright)
10. Managing Digitisation projects (Digitisation Process management; Team Development; Staff Training; Working with Third Parties for Technical Assistance; Working with Third Parties in Cooperative projects and Content Sharing; Costs)

If your institution wants to propose a good practice in one or more of these areas of nomination, please send us the available form, in order to be added to this list.

The form must be e-mailed to minerva2@beniculturali.it or sent by fax +39 06 67232499.

The form will be submitted to the National representative for approval and then published on the Web.

List of good practices already approved.