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University of Connecticut
Have you attended any training sessions (workshops, institutes, etc.) directly related to your digital
collections project?
Have you acquired any new, significant skills?
Did you acquire these new skills on your own? Via workshops or special training sessions?
Consulting with experts?
3. Funding
Do you have adequate funding to complete your digital collections project?
Have you applied for and/or received any grants?
Have you identified strategies for attracting private funding?
What costs have you incurred in creating your digital collections project? What was purchased?
4. Productivity
Have you investigated intellectual property rights for your project?
Have you secured copyright for the materials to be digitized?
Did you complete a license agreement with an outside party?
Did you complete a partnership document with an outside party?
Have you converted any materials into digital format? If so, how many items? Images? Pages of
text? Did you outsource this work? To whom? How long did it take?
Have you created any metadata? If so, what type? How much?
Have you created any databases? If so, what software did you use? How will the database be
delivered to the Web?
Do you have a website for your digital collections project? Dedicated URL? Written content for
the website? If not, have you taken steps to see that a website is created?
Have you developed mechanisms for compiling user feedback? Analog statistics? Interactive
feedback form online? Focus groups? One-on-one interviews with users?
5. Impact
Can you measure the usability of your digital collections project? In other words, have you
received feedback from users about how easily your digital collection can be searched, how easily
content can be printed out, etc.?
Can you quantify improvements in user access to materials because of your digital collection?
Have you altered your work plan or objectives based upon user feedback?
Have original materials been better preserved/conserved as a result of your digital collection?
Has a collection been processed as a result of your digital collection?
If your digital collection is online, how many users have visited your website? On a given day?
During a given week? Month? How long do users view your digital collection? What comments
have you received from users? Positive or negative?
How much marketing or promotion of your digital collection have you accomplished? In what
forms (meetings, workshops local, regional or national conferences UConn Libraries website,
UConn Libraries Newsletter, UConn Advance, local newspaper, print brochure, etc.)? Have these
promotional efforts made an impact upon usage?
Who or what organizations are linking to your digital collections project online?
6. Priorities
What information architecture do you need to create your digital collections project?
What level of communication have you developed to manage your project?
What policies have you created surrounding the development of your project?
Have you established policies for the preservation of original objects, content selection criteria,
development of new services, or wider digitization potential?
University of Connecticut
Have you attended any training sessions (workshops, institutes, etc.) directly related to your digital
collections project?
Have you acquired any new, significant skills?
Did you acquire these new skills on your own? Via workshops or special training sessions?
Consulting with experts?
3. Funding
Do you have adequate funding to complete your digital collections project?
Have you applied for and/or received any grants?
Have you identified strategies for attracting private funding?
What costs have you incurred in creating your digital collections project? What was purchased?
4. Productivity
Have you investigated intellectual property rights for your project?
Have you secured copyright for the materials to be digitized?
Did you complete a license agreement with an outside party?
Did you complete a partnership document with an outside party?
Have you converted any materials into digital format? If so, how many items? Images? Pages of
text? Did you outsource this work? To whom? How long did it take?
Have you created any metadata? If so, what type? How much?
Have you created any databases? If so, what software did you use? How will the database be
delivered to the Web?
Do you have a website for your digital collections project? Dedicated URL? Written content for
the website? If not, have you taken steps to see that a website is created?
Have you developed mechanisms for compiling user feedback? Analog statistics? Interactive
feedback form online? Focus groups? One-on-one interviews with users?
5. Impact
Can you measure the usability of your digital collections project? In other words, have you
received feedback from users about how easily your digital collection can be searched, how easily
content can be printed out, etc.?
Can you quantify improvements in user access to materials because of your digital collection?
Have you altered your work plan or objectives based upon user feedback?
Have original materials been better preserved/conserved as a result of your digital collection?
Has a collection been processed as a result of your digital collection?
If your digital collection is online, how many users have visited your website? On a given day?
During a given week? Month? How long do users view your digital collection? What comments
have you received from users? Positive or negative?
How much marketing or promotion of your digital collection have you accomplished? In what
forms (meetings, workshops local, regional or national conferences UConn Libraries website,
UConn Libraries Newsletter, UConn Advance, local newspaper, print brochure, etc.)? Have these
promotional efforts made an impact upon usage?
Who or what organizations are linking to your digital collections project online?
6. Priorities
What information architecture do you need to create your digital collections project?
What level of communication have you developed to manage your project?
What policies have you created surrounding the development of your project?
Have you established policies for the preservation of original objects, content selection criteria,
development of new services, or wider digitization potential?
