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Intro to Digitisation
Matthew Brack
Digitisation Project Manager
Wellcome Library
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Some digitisation projects
http://eeb.chadwyck.com/
http://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/ http://bit.ly/1vSt8Ic
http://bit.ly/1x0bRAj
ProQuest Early Euopean Books
UK Medical Heritage Library
Reading Room / Pathways
Western Manuscripts 1000-1650
Forensics and Sex temporary
exhibitions
Some more digitisation projects
Nature of digitisation
Got general questions about digitisation?
The answer will always be: “It depends”
Simon Tanner, Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: http://bit.ly/1nXeI7u
Strategy (“know your purpose”)
Project Management
SELECTION DIGITISATION DELIVERY
Institutional impact of digitisation
Why are we doing this?
What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library: http://theatln.tc/1wF91NU
http://www.gutenberg.org/
JISC/RLUK survey: http://bit.ly/1wF9CiC
You won’t digitise everything…
“We’re going to digitise everything.”
Probably not.
Первый блин всегда комом
Project problems post-mortem:
Machinery issues
Retrieval across 30 collections, 4 floors, 2 buildings, 2 states
of access
Copyright clearance in parallel
12% of selection not found
Display issues
Imaging is the quickest step
BOOKS IN STACKS
IN SCOPE
NOTE
STAY ON SHELF
ONLINE CAT?
PRINT CAT?
NOTE GENE-RATE
SHELF LIST
DUPLI-CATE
CHECK
SINGLE SHELF LISTS
SORT BY
SIZE
CHECK OUT
CHECK OUT
CON ASS-ESS
UPDATE SHELF LIST
RETURN TO SHELF
DIGI-TISE
CONDI-TION?
REPAIR
BOX
TO CATALO-
GUE?
CATA-LOGUE
1.22 STORE
215B STACKS 1.22 STORAGE CONSERVATION CATALOGUING
NO
NO
YES
YES
LARGER
NO WAY
NOT OK
OK
FAIR
POOR
YES
1.22 STORE
NO
1.22 STORE
START
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1b
1c
1d
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BOOKS IN STACKS
IN SCOPE
NOTE
STAY ON SHELF
ONLINE CAT?
PRINT CAT?
NOTE GENE-RATE
SHELF LIST
DUPLI-CATE
CHECK
SINGLE SHELF LISTS
SORT BY
SIZE
CHECK OUT
CHECK OUT
CON ASS-ESS
UPDATE SHELF LIST
RETURN TO SHELF
DIGI-TISE
CONDI-TION?
REPAIR
BOX
TO CATALO-
GUE?
CATA-LOGUE
1.22 STORE
215B STACKS 1.22 STORAGE CONSERVATION CATALOGUING
NO
NO
YES
YES
LARGER
NO WAY
NOT OK
OK
FAIR
POOR
YES
1.22 STORE
NO
1.22 STORE
START
1a
1b
1c
1d
2
3
4
5
6
11
7
8
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10
1.21 DIADEIS
It’s a lot of small tasks, repeated
1. Generate unique ID
2. Create ‘scan list’
3. Create ‘review file’
4. Make unavailable to users
5. Create barcodes
6. Retrieve items
7. Insert barcodes
8. Deliver items for imaging
9. Update tracking list
[Re-work]
a. Returnb. Remove barcodesc. Update tracking listd. Make available to userse. Pray for no more re-workf. Repeat for next batch
Metadata is really important
• Metadata first, then digitisation – otherwise you don’t know what you have, where it is, or any way of controlling it…
• On average 50% of project time is spent on metadata and cataloguing
• Must be shaped by user need and what an organisation is capable of delivering
• Tension between low-volume digitisation with more metadata for a richer user experience or larger-scale digitisation with lighter metadata attached
• Standards-based framework helpful for consistency, accuracy and efficiency in metadata input (e.g. Dublin Core, MARC21)
• Digital objects ‘don’t exist’ without metadata – no search, no discovery
Copyright and IPR
http://creativecommons.org/
Bøkhylla project by the National Library of Norway: www.nb.no
Extended Collective Licensing: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111116890
Sensitivity assessment: http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2012/06/sensitivity-assessment-the-finer-points-of-archives-digitisation/
Does digi damage your stuff?
• Digitisation handles collections intensively in new ways
• Survey to develop image capture approach and identify out of scope material
• Survey detail depends on collection
• Training for photographers and digital preparators
• Actual preparation of materials (staples, openings)
• Digitisation is not preservation
• Most damage to collections comes from handling
Digitisation is not preservation
Communicating your collections
Useful resourcesTHORNTON, E. (2013) Digitisation Doctor Workshop. 15th April 2013. Available from: http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2013/05/resources-from-digitisation-doctor-workshop-now-available
HENSHAW, C. and KILEY, R. (2013) The Wellcome Library, Digital. Ariadne. July 2013. Available from: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue71/henshaw-kiley
JISC, Project Management for Digitisation, JISC Digital Media. Available from: http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/project-management-for-a-digitisation-project
BRACK, M. (2012) Bridging the Gap: Library digital collections, innovation and the user. Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of King’s College London for the Degree of Masters in Digital Asset Management. Available from: http://nsla.org.au/publication/bridging-gap-library-digital-collections-innovation-and-user
