Starting a Digitization Center
- 1st Edition - May 31, 2004
- Latest edition
- Authors: Cokie Anderson, David Maxwell
- Language: English
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… Read more
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
Librarians, archivists and curators
Introduction; Getting started; Hardware; Software; The digitization process; Collaboration: ways of working together; Funding; Putting collections online; Preservation planning.
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 31, 2004
- Language: English
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Cokie Anderson
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Oklahoma State University, USADM
David Maxwell
David C. Maxwell is the Coordinator at Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center.
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