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Planning Digitisation Projects Aly Conteh The British Library 30/11/2012 CERL Annual Seminar
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Planning Digitisation Projects
Aly Conteh The British Library
30/11/2012 CERL Annual Seminar
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Policy and strategy How & why Projects Past, present & future Challenges Funding and staffing Sustainability
“is the representation of an object, image, sound, document or a signal (usually an analog signal) by a discrete set of its points or samples. The result is called digital representation”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitizing
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projects in partnership with publishers, external funding bodies and other sponsors and donors, technology providers, user communities and other content holders. Full costs of the project cost of access, delivery and sustainability. Assess each proposal in terms of: Our drivers for digitisation; Business models, IP and copyright issues, and access to content (through the Library’s Digitisation and Web Monitoring Group); Operational viability, technical standards, outputs and preservation issues
Let’s digitise you
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projects in partnership with publishers, external funding bodies and other sponsors and donors, technology providers, user communities and other content holders. Full costs of the project cost of access, delivery and sustainability. Assess each proposal in terms of: Our drivers for digitisation; Business models, IP and copyright issues, and access to content (through the Library’s Digitisation and Web Monitoring Group); Operational viability, technical standards, outputs and preservation issues
Web Site
Metadata
Stan
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Storage
Digital Preservation
Post Processing
Content Selection
FundingLegal Issues (IPR)
SustainabilityUs
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Physical Condition
DigitisationResource Discovery
Workflow
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+ legal + press office + Digital Preservation +
Planning Projects
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projects in partnership with publishers, external funding bodies and other sponsors and donors, technology providers, user communities and other content holders. Full costs of the project cost of access, delivery and sustainability. Assess each proposal in terms of: Our drivers for digitisation; Business models, IP and copyright issues, and access to content (through the Library’s Digitisation and Web Monitoring Group); Operational viability, technical standards, outputs and preservation issues
To Begin With
Set goals, objectives & scope
Determine the audience
Identify funding source
Consider institutional capabilities
Plan governance
What to digitise
What’s unique / important / relevant?
What’s needed?
What’s possible?
Cost
Copyright
Condition
Boutique Digitisation
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Characteristics of Boutique Digitisation: Self-selecting i.e. obvious treasures Drivers: cultural restitution, wider public access Sometimes private sponsorship, especially for iconic items Cultural reunification projects. E.g. IDP and Codex Sinaiticus
Mass Digitisation
Project Planning - Lifecycle approach
Scoping Preparation Digitisation Post-processing Metadata Quality Assurance Preservation Access
Costing a Project
Consider people, equipment & services
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Value for money Sustainability Innovation Benefits other than generic benefits of digitisation e.g. partnerships, conservation, collection audit, metadata/catalogue enhancement, scholarship
Costing a Project - Elements
Selection, preparation, retrieval, transport
Digital capture, post processing,
Quality assurance, metadata creation
Presentation, storage
Project management, procurement
Training, infrastructure, IT
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Value for money Sustainability Innovation Benefits other than generic benefits of digitisation e.g. partnerships, conservation, collection audit, metadata/catalogue enhancement, scholarship
Ongoing Project Activities
ProjectManagement
Sustainability
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/flatcat/3555774083/
Sustainability
Lifecycle project planning
Editorial & Technical sustainability
Align with organisational objectives
Engage with community
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Value for money Sustainability Innovation Benefits other than generic benefits of digitisation e.g. partnerships, conservation, collection audit, metadata/catalogue enhancement, scholarship
Challenges & Issues
Funding
Storage & Digital Preservation
Sustainability Content Extraction OCR, Transcription, Layout Analysis
National / International Cooperation
Europeana
Recent Funding Example
JISC Mass Digitisation Call
£3.4m total funding
7 projects funded
68 bids received
http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/06/econtentcapital.aspx
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JISC Grant Funding 16/10: Rapid Digitisation
Where to look? Further guidance
Further Guidance
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http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/ Particular docs worth checking: http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/ http://www.life.ac.uk http://brtf.sdsc.edu/index.html http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/strategy/ithaka-case-studies-in-sustainability http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
Thank you.
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And I haven’t even talked about – IPR & Copyright Costs Funding Digitisation equipment – software & hardware Quality Control IT Systems development
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