Hi Ashley,
I recommend that you check out the NISO Framework of Guidance for
Building Good Digital Collections, which includes many principles
that could help to shape selection criteria or a more comprehensive
collections development policy:
http://framework.niso.org/
(Full disclosure: I was a member of the Working Group that wrote this
version of the standard).
Cheers,
Tony Gill
>Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:34:16 -0400
>From: Ashley Harper <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Digitization Criteria Anyone?
>
>Good afternoon everyone,
>
> My current department is undertaking a year long digitization project that
>involves going through many donated collections and processing and selecting
>pieces to be digitized. All these collections are basically photographs,
>manuscripts, letters and other flat, 2 dimensional ephemera.
>
>As part of this project we have to come up with selection criteria for the
>digitization. At the moment we are figuring out this criteria and
>functioning without any current guide. I was hoping that you might be
>willing to share with me any of your digitization criteria or digitization
>policies?
>
>Also I would like to share two examples of what has been influencing our
>thoughts as we create this criteria. Please see below.
>
>Thanks in advance everyone! Anything you send I am sure will be helpful to
>us!
>
>Examples of our inspiration:
>
>http://ahc.uwyo.edu/documents/faculty/greene/papers/Greene-Meissner.pdf
>
>http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2007/2007-02.pdf.
>
>Happy Tuesday,
>Ashley Harper
>Digital Collections
>Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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