Product Description

This book provides a complete overview of the digitisation process and how to set up a digitisation center. It covers the following issues: Essential steps and standards; Acquiring the essentials needed for imaging/digitising, including equipment, software, hardware, personnel and housing; Finding partners/collaborators (a key issue for smaller institutions); Locating training and online resources; Obtaining funding; and setting up guidelines, formats, websites and putting collections online. Key Features include: Stresses the importance of collaboration, tips for finding partners; Serves as a practical handbook; Focuses on creating a good digitisation center/project with extremely limited funds and/or low budget; and also appeals to beginners and smaller institutions. Cokie Anderson is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University, and David C. Maxwell is the Coordinator at Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center. Contents include: Getting started - housing, personnel, training; Hardware and software - hardware (pricing and what to look for when buying hardware), software (pricing and what to look for when buying software), personnel, training; The digitisation process - graphic flowchart of the digitisation process, selection of materials, preservation/conservation of originals, standards, information architecture, scanning/re-keying, image manipulation, conversion to electronic text, XML markup, metadata, databases, website design, putting files online, preservation planning; Collaboration - why collaborate, finding partnerships, guidelines and tips for working with others; Obtaining funding - estimating costs, grants, underwriters, cost recovery, sharing expenses; Putting collections online - website design, usability and navigation, accessibility guidelines, audience, purpose and context, publicizing your site, keeping statistics; and Preservation - planning for the future.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2094279 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

About the Author
Cokie Anderson has been an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University since 2000, and directs the University Librarys Electronic Publishing Center. She is one of the founding members of, a collaborative effort by Oklahoma libraries, archives, and museums to digitise cultural materials. David C. Maxwell is the Coordinator at Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center.