1. Getting Started with Digital Collections Erin Logsdon Consultant, Digital Solutions NELINET, Inc.

4. What is a Digital Library?

5. Define: Digital Library “ Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities.” Digital Library Federation Annual Report ,(1998-1999) 1.

6. Components “ Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources , including specialized staff , to select , structure , offer intellectual access to, interpret , distribute , preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities.” Digital Library Federation Annual Report ,(1998-1999) 1.

7. Digitization ≠ Preservation

9. Why should we create a digital collection?

11. Sustainability

12. First Step

13. Audience

14. http:// interconnectionsreport.org /

15. http:// interconnectionsreport.org /

16. http:// interconnectionsreport.org /

17. Stakeholders

18. What should we choose?

19. Selection Committee

20. Selection Criteria

22. Selection Process HANDBOOK FOR DIGITAL PROJECTS: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access NEDCC

27. MONEY

28. Operational Costs

29. Organizational Costs

30. Staffing Costs

34. Sample Digitization Costs * *From: “Digitization: is it worth it?” by Stuart D. Lee in Computers in Libraries , vol. 21, no. 5, May 2001, pp. 28-31. $2.34 $3.21 $4.82 $1.31 $0.18 Average unit cost per item 2700 dpi 8-bit Grayscale 2700 dpi 24-bit Color 600 dpi 24-bit Color 300 dpi 8-bit Color 300 dpi 1-bit B&W Suggested digitization specs Unmounted negative film, B&W 35 mm color slides Color Photos, 5” x 4” Printed Letter, Color Printed Letter, B&W

35. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub103/appendix6.html

37. Funding Trends

38. Out-house vs. In-house

40. Standards

41. Establish Quality Benchmarks

43. Image Processing: Resolution

44. Image Resolution - Low

45. Image Resolution - High(er)

56. Starting a new Family northwest of West Union, Nebraska. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path =/award/nbhips/lca/103&topImages=10358r.jpg&topLinks=10358v.jpg&displayProfile=0&title=Starting%20a%20new%20Family%20northwest%20of%20West%20Union,%20Nebraska.&m856s=$dnbhips$f10358&dir= ammem&itemLink =r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p10358))

57. New Insights

58. What is metadata? http://www.flickr.com/photos/caterina/915384/sizes/o/

63. Element Set Overview

65. Deciding on a scheme It is very important to decide what the material is, what needs to be described, who it is intended for, how it will be retrieved, and how it will be processed and used before deciding on a scheme for its description. - Dr. Peter Noerr Digital Library Toolkit – Sun Microsystems

70. What data structure(s) do staff use to create metadata?

76. Information R/evolution http:// youtube.com/watch?v =-4CV05HyAbM

77. Technology

83. Security?

85. Another Way http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelmsfordpubliclibrary/sets/

91. Questions? Source: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=327122302&size=m Contact Info : Erin Logsdon [email_address] 508.597.1946