Interoperability and service provision centres Working group
Technical Guidelines
for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes
Version 1.0: Revised 08 April 2004
This document has been developed on behalf of the Minerva Project by UKOLN, University of Bath, in association with MLA The Council for Museums, Libraries & Archives
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Tables of contents
Credits & Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 The purpose of this document
1.2 The role of technical standards
1.3 The benefits of deploying standards
1.4 The life cycle approach
1.5 Requirement levels
2 Preparation for digitisation
2.1 Hardware
2.2 Software
2.3 Environment
3 Handling of originals
3.1 Appropriate movement and manipulation
of original material
3.2 Staff training
4 The digitisation process
5 Storage and management of the digital master material
5.1 File formats
Text capture and storage
Character encoding
Document formats
Still image capture and storage
Raster images
Vector images
Video capture and storage
Audio capture and storage
5.2 Media choices
5.3 Preservation strategies
6 Metadata creation/capture
6.1 The scope of the metadata
6.2 Appropriate standards
Descriptive metadata
Administrative metadata
Preservation metadata
Structural metadata
Collection-level description
Terminology standards
7 Publication
7.1 Processing for delivery
Delivery of text
Character encoding
Document formats
Delivery of still images
Photographic images
Graphic non-vector images
Graphic vector images
Delivery of video
Downloading
Streaming
Delivery of audio
Downloading
Streaming
Identification
7.2 3D and virtual reality issues
7.3 Geographic information systems
7.4 Web sites
Accessibility
Security
Authenticity
User authentication
Performance indicators
8 Disclosure of resources
8.1 Metadata harvesting
8.2 Distributed searching
8.3 Alerting
8.4 Web services
8.5 RDF and Web ontologies
9 Re-use and re-purposing
9.1 Learning resource creation
10 Intellectual property rights and copyright
10.1 Identifying, recording and managing intellectual property rights
10.2 Safeguarding intellectual property rights
Creative Commons
E-commerce
Watermarking and fingerprinting
11 Summary
11.1 Maintenance
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