Starting a Digitization Center (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Anderson, Cokie; Maxwell, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843340739 ISBN 13: 9781843340737

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

Starting a Digitization Center provides a complete overview of the digitization process and how to set up a digitization center, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online. It covers: Essential steps and standards, acquiring the essentials needed for imaging/digitizing, including equipment, software, hardware, personnel and housing, finding partners/collaborators, locating training and online resources, obtaining funding, setting up guidelines, formats, websites and putting collections online.

• Stresses the importance of collaboration, tips for finding partners and working with others
• Serves as a practical handbook and it acts as a manual, and guides readers to finding more advanced resources
• Focuses on creating a good digitisation center/project with extremely limited funds and/or low budget

About this title

About the Author:

Cokie Anderson has been an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University since 2000, and directs the University Library’s 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1843340739
• ISBN 13: 9781843340737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208