Dear MCG'ers,
I'm not sure whether anyone has picked this up, but an organisation called 'Digital New Zealand' has launched a new advisory site called Make It Digital (http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines). The site aims to provide guidance and information for organisations getting involved in or planning Digitisation projects.
While it is undoubtedly a pretty good job, it takes what you might characterise as a 'traditional' approach to the mechanics of Digitisation, focussing on the Digital Lifecycle and going into some detail on things like metadata. In my experience this is the approach taken by the majority of these sites.
So...my question is whether anyone on the list has come across guidance or advice on Digitisation which addresses things like user need, models of consumption and use of digital content or ways of thinking about the economics of digital content? Is there any good guidance anywhere on best practice in interface design for collections of digital cultural content?
Any pointers gratefully received!
Nick
Nick Poole
Chief Executive
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