Archiving Oral History: Manual of Best Practices by the Oral History Association This document is intended to be viewed in context as an addendum to the Oral History Association’s Principles and Best Practices. It is important to note that this […]
Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem by Sharon Mizota This presentation describes the metadata schema, content standard, and taxonomy guidelines created for Curationist.org, a crowd-sourced, multilingual aggregator of open access cultural content. Designed to […]
By Recollection Wisconsin Our Digital Projects Toolkit introduces the basic elements of cultural heritage digitization projects. In each section, you’ll find practical tools, guidelines and examples as well as resources for more in-depth learning. https://recollectionwisconsin.org/toolkit
By Madison Chartier The OSU Library Metadata Guide: Best Practices for Digital Collections is a document based on national standards and best practices for creating and enhancing metadata that provides consistency and accuracy within and between digital collections to increase […]
by Digital Operations, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Tutorial for scanning best practices for scanning film-related objects, including making decisions aboutimage file format, image resolution, color mode, and color bit depth for your scanning software. Also see the […]
by the University Library, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Best Practices for Creating Digital Collections, includes the following: 1.0 File Formats 2.0 Directory Structure and File Naming 3.0 Digital Imaging 4.0 Newspaper Digitization 5.0 Optical Character Recognition 6.0 PDF Creation […]
by Kimberly Parker, Nathan D. M. Robertson, Ivy Anderson, Adam Chandler, Sharon E. Farb, Timothy Jewell, and Angela Riggio, Appendix B of the 2004 Electronic Resource Management report of the Digital Library Federation ERM Initiative The Electronic Resource Management Workflow […]
by Nathan Hosburgh (editor) Acquiring resources once they are selected can be very straightforward or very complicated depending on the resource to be purchased. The following acquisitions steps usually occur when acquiring new content and services. This TERMS section provides […]
by Nancy Hill, University of Texas at El Paso This LibGuide offers guidelines for e-resource librarians and subject selectors on the local process for evaluating and acquiring new electronic resources at the University of Texas at El Paso. Organized into […]
by Rick Anderson A license agreement is a contract that you negotiate with a publisher or vendor before finalizing the purchase of an online product. It details the provider’s responsibilities and your own, as well as defining the ways in […]