90 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
More processing work: item-level description not previously done management of digital objects file versions.
Need to make sure that finding aid descriptions are detailed enough to reuse as metadata. Link images to finding aids
after the finding aid is completely tagged and the images have been loaded to contentDM.
No impact yet.
None. (2 responses)
Often requires more detailed description at the item level but this work is performed by staff in our digital library which
means their workload will impact decisions for this level.
On occasion drives the processing decisions and increases the visibility of a collection.
Pilot project digitizing 22 linear foot manuscript collection running 2008–2010, impact assessed upon completion of
project.
Put it up and they will come.
RBSC: requires accurate data set more detail in description.
Requires more item-level processing while we’re moving away from more detailed access, digitization is pulling us back
in this direction.
Significant impact.
The few digitization projects we’ve completed have increased use exponentially. We digitized 6,000–7,000 wax
cylinders with an IMLS grant and anyone can listen or download. There have been several million hits on the cylinder
Web site and access to some of the rarer items has resulted in major new directions for research in historical sound
recordings.
The Library’s pilot digitization projects have demonstrated the usefulness of repurposing metadata. The projects have
also raised the need for more effective content management, especially for cross collection searching and linking to
digital content.
The opportunity to add a collection to a list of digitization projects has a major impact on which collections get what
level of processing.
Things must be processed to the item level.
This conflicts with MPLP because especially for photos they really need item-level description to be useful to and
locatable by patrons.
This has a tremendous amount of impact. Obviously, it’s what our researchers want. It brings exposure to the archives
and gets users interested.
To be determined pilot projects just underway.
Top priority.
Useful for reference but inherent expectation that everything can and will be available electronically.
We are only digitizing from processed collections.
We digitize only processed collections, so decisions about what to digitize and what to process must be coordinated. In
general, we are digitizing collections in order to provide better access to important collections, and these are collections
that also have a high priority for processing. Digitization as we have done it so far requires item-level description—
More processing work: item-level description not previously done management of digital objects file versions.
Need to make sure that finding aid descriptions are detailed enough to reuse as metadata. Link images to finding aids
after the finding aid is completely tagged and the images have been loaded to contentDM.
No impact yet.
None. (2 responses)
Often requires more detailed description at the item level but this work is performed by staff in our digital library which
means their workload will impact decisions for this level.
On occasion drives the processing decisions and increases the visibility of a collection.
Pilot project digitizing 22 linear foot manuscript collection running 2008–2010, impact assessed upon completion of
project.
Put it up and they will come.
RBSC: requires accurate data set more detail in description.
Requires more item-level processing while we’re moving away from more detailed access, digitization is pulling us back
in this direction.
Significant impact.
The few digitization projects we’ve completed have increased use exponentially. We digitized 6,000–7,000 wax
cylinders with an IMLS grant and anyone can listen or download. There have been several million hits on the cylinder
Web site and access to some of the rarer items has resulted in major new directions for research in historical sound
recordings.
The Library’s pilot digitization projects have demonstrated the usefulness of repurposing metadata. The projects have
also raised the need for more effective content management, especially for cross collection searching and linking to
digital content.
The opportunity to add a collection to a list of digitization projects has a major impact on which collections get what
level of processing.
Things must be processed to the item level.
This conflicts with MPLP because especially for photos they really need item-level description to be useful to and
locatable by patrons.
This has a tremendous amount of impact. Obviously, it’s what our researchers want. It brings exposure to the archives
and gets users interested.
To be determined pilot projects just underway.
Top priority.
Useful for reference but inherent expectation that everything can and will be available electronically.
We are only digitizing from processed collections.
We digitize only processed collections, so decisions about what to digitize and what to process must be coordinated. In
general, we are digitizing collections in order to provide better access to important collections, and these are collections
that also have a high priority for processing. Digitization as we have done it so far requires item-level description—
