Managing Digitization Activities, SPEC Kit 294 (September 2006)

Mugridge, Rebecca L.

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Intellectual access
Potential projects should be evaluated as to whether appropriate intellectual control
can be provided for the original materials and the digital versions:
__degree to which the materials are organized/arranged in a way suited to
online use
__cataloging, processing and related organizational work already accomplished
or to be accomplished as part of the project
__staff and resources to support creation of appropriate metadata relating to
document identification, technical capture information, provenance, and easy
navigation within the information resource
Adapted from the University of Arizona's Digital Library Initiatives Group Digital
Project Development Checklist
(http://digital.library.arizona.edu/documents/development/checklist.rtf)

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__enhancement of intellectual control through creation of new finding aids, links
to bibliographic records, and development of indices and other tools
__ability to search widely, manipulate images and text, and study disparate
images in new contexts
__improved quality of image, e.g., through improved legibility of faded or
stained documents
Demand
Are scholars now consulting the proposed source materials? Are the materials being
used as much as they might be? Or is current access to the proposed materials so
difficult that digitization will create a new audience, more active scholarship, or new
kinds of teaching?
To justify the effort and expense, there should be a reasonable expectation that the
product will have immediate utility for members of the academic community and/or
other appropriate audiences:
__would provide support for current high priority activities or areas of interest
__likely to be of long term use within the academic community
__there is an active, current, good-sized audience for the materials
__there is advocacy for the project from the University community
__likely to generate new types of use or significantly increased use of existing
resources
Collaborative across collections
Will the combination or aggregation of original sources greatly increase their value?
Are related materials so widely dispersed that they cannot be studied in context?
__part of a collection split among a number of institutions that could be united
online as a virtual collection
__contribution to development of a "critical mass" of digital materials in a
subject area
__flexible integration and synthesis of a variety of formats, or of related
materials scattered among many locations
__strengthen or enhance an existing resource
Preservation aspects
Is the long-term preservation of deteriorated materials a project goal? While
digitization does not in itself constitute preservation, there are preservation aspects
to be considered, both in terms of the original materials and in terms of the files
which will be created.
Providing surrogates
__significant reduction in handling of fragile materials
__access to materials that cannot otherwise be easily used
__protection of materials at high risk of theft or mutilation
Safe digitization
__condition of originals allows them to be digitized safely
__condition of originals requires conservation/rehousing for safe digitization
funding must be secured for this work
__possibility of scanning photographic intermediaries instead of the originals

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