Resources on digitization project management

On Tuesday, Jeff asked a question on the IMAGELIB discuss list about locating "a recent, up-to-date handbook or guide to digitization project management, in particular with practical advice for building digital image databases." Responses came from around the world and, as I promised the group, I am posting the list of resources here. You'll notice that some of the resources may not be on-target (according to Jeff's criteria), but they are ones that people felt should be mentioned. If you know of resources that you think should be mentioned, please leave a comment on this blog post. We will all be very grateful!

BTW one of the things I noted is that something written earlier in this decade may still be good. In my mind, we gained enough knowledge in the 1990s in order to be clear now about what digitization is and how it should be done.

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The Resources

• Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Collections at University of Maryland Libraries, http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/publications/best_practice.pdf

• California Local History Digital Resources Project Handbook, version 2007‐2008, http://cdlib.com/inside/projects/oac/lsta/handbook/lhdrp_handbook.pdf

• CDP@BCR, http://www.cdpheritage.org/index.html

• Jill Marie Koelling. Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach. AltaMira Press, 2004.

• Digital Library Building Blocks, http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/

• Digital Library Construction Tools: How-To Manuals, http://www.bcdlib.tc.ca/tools-manuals.html (may include some outdated links)

• Digitisation resources, http://pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/home/resources

• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections, http://www.niso.org/framework/framework2.html

• Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, Inc., 2000.

• Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial, especially Section 4 http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/

• New York State Archives Imaging Production Guidelines, 2006 http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/records/mr_erecords_imgguides.shtml

• Picture Queensland Image Digitisation Manual 2007, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/63879/Picture_Queensland_image_digitisation_manual_-_complete.pdf

• Preparing for digitisation, Skill session, 15 September 2007 (State Library of Queensland), http://www.magsq.com.au/_dbase_upl/Gavin%20Bannerman.pdf

• The Technical Advisory Service for Images, http://www.tasi.ac.uk

• The Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines, http://www.updig.org/guidelines/index.php

• Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 1.0 http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/scanning/documents/wsdibp_v1.pdf

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