Good practices and competences centres

• Reference Bibliography
  
  
  • General sources for guidelines and good practices on digitisation
  • Digitisation project planning
  • Selection
  • Preparation for digitisation
  • Handling of originals
  • Digitisation process and image quality
  • Preservation of the digital master material
  • Meta-data and standards
  • Preparation for publication
  • Project Management

• General sources for guidelines and good practices on digitisation
  
  
  • Arts Humanities Data Services, U.K. Guides to good practice in the creation and use of digital resources
    
    
  • British Library. Objectives of digitisation
    
    
  • Cornell University. Department of Preservation & Conservation. Moving theory into practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial
    
    
  • Cornell University. Department of Research Moving theory into practice: digital imaging tutorial. 2000-2003.
    
    
  • Council on Library & Information Resources. Guides to quality in visual resource imaging. Digital Library Federation., July 2000
    
    
  • Digital Library Federation. Digital library standards and practices
    
    
  • Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging.
    
    
  • Getty Trust Funds NINCH Guide to good practise: guide to be published Fall 2001
    
    
  • Harvard University Library. Guide to image digitization. October 2001
    
    
  • Kenney, Anne R. – Chapman, Stephen. Digitizing images for libraries and archives. Cornell University, Department of Digital Preservation and Maintenance, 1996
    
    
  • Institute of Museum & Library Services. A framework of guidance for building good digital collections. 6 November 2001
    
    
  • National Archives and Records Administration. NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access
    
    
  • National Preservation Office/Research Libraries Group. Guidelines for digital imaging: papers given at the joint NPO/RLG Preservation Conference, London, 1998
    
    
  • NOF-Digitise Technical Advisory Service Manual.
    
    
  • NINCH (National Initiative for A Networked Cultural Heritage) (2002). The NINCH guide to good practice in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials
    
    
  • Safeguarding Australia´s Web resources. Guidelines for creators and publishers. National Library of Australia. 2000.
    
    
  • Sitts, M.K. Handbook for digital projects: a management tool for preservation and access. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center. 2001
    
    
  • TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images). Advices documents on all digital imaging issues.
    
    
  • Unesco Guidelines for establishing digitization programmes in libraries and archives
    
    
  • VADS (Visual Arts Data Service). Guides to good practice. Creating digital resources for the visual arts: standards and good practice
    
    
  • H. Weber, M. Dörr. Digitisation as a method of preservation? Amsterdam: European Council on Preservation and Access, 1997
    
    

• Digitisation project planning
  
  
  • Arts and Humanities Data Service.
    
    
  • American Memory.
    
    
  • Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
    
    
  • Sun Microsystems Digital Toolkit.
    
    
  • US National Digital Library Programme Project Planning Checklist
    
    
  • Planning Your Digitization Project.
    
    
  • An Introduction to Digital Projects for Libraries, Museums and Archives.
    
    
  • Canadian Heritage Information Network. Planning your digitisation project.
    
    
  • Colorado Digitisation Programme. Questions to Ask.
    
    
  • Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program NDLP Project Planning Checklist
    
    
  • Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR). Building and sustaining digital collections: models for libraries and museums. Washington, DC, 2001 (Publication 100)
    
    
  • Digital Library Federation. DLF draft strategy and business plan. 2000.
    
    
  • Library of Congress. LC21: a digital strategy for the Library of Congress : executive summary.
    
    
  • Library of Congress. NDLP Project Planning Checklist. 1997
    
    
  • Manuscript Digitization Demonstration Project (LC)
    
    
  • Modernisierung und Rationalisierung in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken.
    Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft. 2000.
    
    
  • National Digital Library Program (NDLP), Library of Congress, American Memory.
    Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers.
    
    
  • National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia Digitisation policy 2000-2004. I
    
    
  • National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia Digitisation policy 2000-2004. II
    
    
  • National Science Foundation [et al.]. Digital Library Initiative: phase 2
    
    
  • Retrospektive Digitalisierung von Bibliotheksbeständen: Merkblatt: Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft, 2000.
    
    
  • Serenson Colet, Linda. Planning an imaging project. Research Libraries Group. 2000
    
    
  • Smith, Abby. Why digitise? Washington, DC: Council on Library & Information Resources, 1999 (Publication 80).
    
    
  • Smith, Abby. Strategies for building digitized collections. Washington, DC: Council on Library & Information Resources, 2001 (Publication 101)
    
    
  • Western Trails. Western States Digital imaging best practices
    
    

• Selection
  Establishing Selection Criteria
  
  
  • RLG/NPO Guidelines and Selection Criteria
    
    
  • Columbia University Libraries Selection Criteria For Digital Imaging
    
    
  • Selection Criteria for Digitization Projects.
    
    
  • Brown University Library Selection Criteria for Digitization
    
    
  • Old Dominion University.Selection Criteria For Digitization
    
    

• Preparation for digitisation
  Hardware, software, Environment
  
  
  • The comprehensive tasi site has a section on hardware and software for digitisation projects.
    
    
  • The University of Arizona has a substantial amount of online guidance, including hardware and software.
    
    
  • The Colorado Digitisation Program includes hardware in its list of guidelines.
    
    
  • The Australian Consortium for Heritage Collections and their Environment publishes guidelines (hosted by Australian Museum Online - AMOL)
    
    
  • AMOL also publishes a FAQ for conservation of artworks; although focused on Australian concernts, it includes much of value
    
    
  • The University of Melbourne publish a useful guide to conservation, including the handling of fragile materials
    
    

• Handling of originals
  Choice of digitisation hardware, Movement and manipulation of original material
  
  
  • Harvard University publishes notes on the choice of appropriate digitisation hardware
    
    
  • The Preservation Administration Discussion Group covers a range of topics in the digitisation area
    
    
  • Canadian Heritage provides notes on hardware
    
    
  • The Australian Consortium for Heritage Collections and their Environment publishes guidelines (hosted by Australian Museum Online - AMOL)
    
    
  • AMOL also publishes a FAQ for conservation of artworks; although focused on Australian concernts, it includes much of value
    
    
  • The University of Melbourne publish a useful guide to conservation, including the handling of fragile materials
    
    

• Digitisation process and image quality
  Scanning, photography, optical character recognition (OCR)
  
  
  • A good guide to Workflow and process management is on the tasi site
    
    
  • User-friendly site on the scanning process
    
    
  • Short overview on how to use a scanner
    
    
  • Guide on the basics of using a digital camera
    
    
  • The tasi page on hardware and software may be useful
    
    
  • NCSU provide a guide to the practical use of digital camera
    
    
  • The University of Maryland hosts a major OCR resource
    
    
  • A brief OCR overview is provided by computerworld magazine
    
    
  • A worthwhile technical report on OCR is provided by the University of New York, Buffalo
    
    
  • A report on OCR, newspapers and microfilm is provided by IFLA
    
    
  • Archive Builders. Digital image sizes
    
    
  • Colorado Digitization Programme. General guidelines for scanning, 1999.
    
    
  • Council on Library & Information Resources. Guides to quality in visual resource imaging.
    Digital Library Federation., July 2000
    
    
  • D´Amato, Donald. Imaging Systems: the Range of Factors Affecting Image Quality. Research Libraries Group. 2000
    
    
  • Williams, Don. Selecting a scanner. Research Libraries Group. 2000
  
  
  

• Preservation of the digital master material
  File formats, media choises, migration strategies
  
  
  • The AHDS provides a directory of material on the preservation of digital content
    
    
  • The Australian PADI initiative hosts a huge range of information on digital preservation
    
    
  • Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System.
    
    
  • Gregory W. Lawrence, William R. Kehoe, Oya Y. Rieger, William H. Walters, and Anne R. Kenney, Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation (CLIR 2000)
    
    
  • Council on Library & Information Resources. Guides to quality in visual resource imaging.
    Digital Library Federation., July 2000
    
    
  • Fleischhauer, Carl. Digital formats for content reproductions. 1998.
    
    
  • Frey, Franziska. File formats for digital masters. Research Libraries Group. 2000.
    
    
  • Frey, Franziska. Measuring Quality of Digital Masters. Research Libraries Group. 2000.
    
    
  • Kenney, Anne R. – Rieger, Oya Y. Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: a Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators. Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University Library for New York State Education Department, Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Materials, May 1998
    
    
  • Weber, H. - DÖrr, M. Digitisation as a method of preservation? Amsterdam: European Council on Preservation and Access. 1997
  
  
  

• Meta-data and standards
  
  
  • Tasi page on meta-data
    
    
  • The Colorado guidelines for meta-data creation and entry
    
    
  • PADI´s meta-data page
    
    
  • An unusual approach to user-generated meta-data
    
    
  • Dublin Core
    
    
  • Encoded Archival Description (EAD) home page
    
    
  • SEPIA, Working Group on descriptive models for photographic collections. Sepiades advisory report on cataloguing photographic collections. Draft Version 3.0, 2003-04-02
    
    

• Preparation for publication
  Image processing (file format, colour depth, resolution), 3D and Virtual Reality Issues
  
  
  • Open source GNU Image Manipulation Program
    
    
  • Image optimization
    
    
  • The University of Oregon provides a very brief look at image optimization
    http://libweb.uoregon.edu/it/webpub/images.html as well as a more detailed section at http://www.uoregon.edu/~jqj/inter-pub/images/
  • The University of Minnesota provides practical material on image manipulation
    
    
  • Montana State University provides guidelines for images in web pages
    
    
  • The VRML standard
    
    
  • Shockwave 3D
    www.macromedia.com and at http://www.3dlinks.com/community_shockwave3D.cfm
    
    
  • Washington University has a very large, but slightly out-of-date knowledge base on virtual reality
    
    
  • The US NIST hosts a page on virtual reality resources
    
    
  • The AHDS has a guide to VR for cultural bodies
    
    

• Project Management
  Digitisation process management
  
  
  • A guide to digitisation project management and workflow
    
    
  • A comprehensive manual for many aspects of the digitisation project process is provided by the NOF-Digitise Technical Advisory Service Manual
    
    
  • The Colorado Digitisation Program has a section on project management
    
    
  • The Canadian Heritage has a section on project management
    
    
  • AHDS has a section on managing digitisation projects
    
    
  • Chapman, Stephen and William Comstock. Digital Imaging Production Services at the Harvard College Library. "RLG DigiNews" (Dec. 5, 2000).
    A look inside the planning and workflow design of a project at the Harvard College Library in 1999
    
    
  • Fleischhauer, Carl. Steps in the Digitization Process. National Digital Library Program, Library of Congress (1996).
    
    
  • Hughes, Carol Ann. Lessons Learned: Digitization of the Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries. "D-Lib Magazine" (June 2000).
    
    
  • Beagrie N. - Greenstein D. Managing digital collections: AHDS policies, standards and practices.
    Arts and Humanities Data Service, 1998