Guidelines for Developing Digital Cultural Collections

Abstract

his chapter presents basic guidelines for maintaining digital cultural collections in order for them to be interoperable and easily retrievable from users. The requirements of cultural material are discussed and it is shown how in combination with the adequate metadata schema policy a digital cultural collection can cover the various needs for learning and retrieving information. The authors emphasize the fact that various metadata schemas are used for describing cultural collections and that this leads to problems for interoperability. It is analyzed that while designing a digital collection, the internal structure of material must be followed and the metadata model must cover specific needs; furthermore, a data preservation policy is a considerable issue in the digital era.

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“…Thus, merely digitisation does not automatically make collections discoverable or accessible (Terras In the following, we describe the process of design and implementation of the KOH and the rationale behind it. While there are standards as well as guidelines for digitising archival materials (Lourdi, Nikolaidou 2009, IFLA 2014, Campagnolo 2020, there is no intrinsic way of visualising them through the web browser (Whitelaw 2015). Of course, under the broad notion of digital humanities, a number of studies have been proposed to deal with the expectations and behaviour of audiences (Pitti 2004;Drucker 2013;Leon 2015;Tom et al 2017), however, this paper stands unique in providing a comprehensive methodology of how a university museum -a place where wide audiences meet and interact with the university collections -can implement a sustainable digital archiving platform alongside the physical space.…”