Resources for Building the Digital Library

Roy Tennant, California Digital Library

Note: items in red are particularly useful.

The Presentation

• The Handout (this page)
  http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/presentations/2003olita/handout.html
• The PowerPoint Slides
  http://escholarship.cdlib.org/rtennant/presentations/2003olita/

General Resources

• Benchmark for Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials
  http://www.diglib.org/standards/bmarkfin.htm
• Colorado Digitization Program's Digitization Resources
  http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/
  Good, practical resources for working projects, including:
  • Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
    http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/wt_bpmetadata.html
  • Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices
    http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/wt_bpscanning.html
  • Digital Imaging Vendors
    http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/scanning/rsrc_vendors.html
• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
  http://www.imls.gov/pubs/forumframework.htm
  An excellent overview of issues, statement of principles, and bibliography of essential works, most of which are available for free online.
• Getting Permission
  http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/permissn.htm
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
  http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm
• Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial
  http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html
  An excellent overview and tutorial of the digital imaging process, from selection to preservation and beyond.
• RLG Tools for Digital Imaging
  http://www.rlg.org/preserv/RLGtools.html
  A lot information on how to outsource your digitization project.
• Strategies for Building Digitized Collections
  http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html

Standards

• Dublin Core
  http://dublincore.org/
• EAD
  http://www.loc.gov/ead/
• METS
  http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
• MODS
  http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
• OAI-PMH
  http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Periodicals

• Ariadne
  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
• D-Lib Magazine
  http://www.dlib.org/
• Digitization Resources from Current Cites
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/bibondemand.cgi?title=Digitization+Resources&query=digitizing+or+digitization
• RLG DigiNews
  http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
  A bi-monthly publication that often has very practical, nitty-gritty articles on digitization issues.

Please note that this document will not be kept up-to-date. Last update, May 3, 2002