Starting a Digitization Center

Anderson, Cokie G.; Maxwell, David C.

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“…Digitisation has many concrete benefits in terms of access, support for preservation, collection development, institutional and strategic benefits; and research and publication (Hughes, 2004;Anderson and Maxwell, 2004). Digitisation goes beyond accessibility by protecting originals from excessive physical handling and repeated copying; and promotes preservation (Anderson and Maxwell, 2004). The primary advantage of digitisation has been to broaden and enhance accessibility of information to a wider community (Hughes, 2004).…”

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Digitising library resources and building digital repositories in the University of Malawi Libraries

Mapulanga

2013

The Electronic Library

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to look at the prospects and challenges of digitising library resources and building digital repositories in the University of Malawi Libraries. Design/methodology/approach -Data collected through online questions sent to college librarians, ICT director and systems administrator (Chancellor College and Bunda College) and assistant librarians or repository co-ordinators in the constituent colleges of the University of Malawi (UNIMA) coupled with technical reports on digital and institutional repository projects in the UNIMA Libraries. Findings -The results of the study have indicated that the UNIMA Libraries are digitising library resources and building digital repositories though the pace is very slow. Bandwidth has increased though accessibility of the resources is hampered by its inadequacy. The databases are frequently attacked by viruses and are locally available through intranet. Policy statements were not drawn for the projects, instead an insertion was done in the research and publications rules and regulations on copyright for theses and dissertations. The majority of the projects lack technical skills, especially running the systems in secure operating Linux-based system environments. Three of the five colleges adopted Greenstone, two adopted DSpace and one adopted Procite depending on the training received and the source of funding. The initial projects relied on external funding for their roll out. Practical implications -The study recommends that college librarians should lobby for training in ICT skills in order to sustain the projects. Funding for digital repositories should be included in the annual budget estimates of the college libraries. Librarians should draw policies specifically for digitisation of library resources, copyright and building of digital repositories in the UNIMA Libraries. ICT department should assist in migrating the repositories to Linux-based environments. Originality/value -There is little researched information on digitisation of library resources and building digital repositories in Malawi, yet there is quite a variety of rare information about the country. This research will add some information on the progress made in digitising Malawiana collection which has cultural heritage, educational and research value.

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Digitising library resources and building digital repositories in the University of Malawi Libraries

Mapulanga

2013

The Electronic Library

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“…Therefore, little control over the level of public funding or small unbudgeted changes in project costs, that would be easy to cover in the industry, may actually be unsurmountable [2]. Bran-colini [22] and Anderson [29] offer a break-down of digitization cost structure. Riley-Reid [9] pursues to understand the hidden costs of digitization and how they accrue.…”

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Pushing the Limits beyond Catalogue Raisonnée: Step 1. Identifying digitalization challenges in museums

Ekosaari¹,

Pekkola

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Museums collect and preserve natural and cultural heritage. Although contemporary information systems are used for managing and exhibiting collections, they have been designed from the viewpoint of supporting practices and methods from the renaissance period. This makes digitizing and innovating new services challenging. In this paper, we focus on the first step in developing digital services in museums and conduct a twopart exploratory survey on 58 experts (directors, collection and exhibition curators, IT experts) to understand their perceptions on different challenges of digitizing, innovating and creating e-services. The experts first identified different IS related challenges and then selected the most significant ones. Our findings thus provide insights not only about the challenges but also show how their perceived importance vary between the expert groups. These insights help researchers and practitioners to study and develop methods and means to digitize and innovate in museums and other organizations with very long traditions, and thus, with strong culture of doing things in an old way.

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“…Though there are many different quality control strategies, it is generally recommended that staff document standards, quality control guidelines, and management approaches [4]. One specific recommended strategy is maintaining workflow logs to track digitization tasks and create data for future evaluation (Anderson and Maxwell, 2004;Lee, 2001). Digital production workflow logs also ensure accountability between all parties, especially in a collaborative digitization project (Anderson and Maxwell, 2004).…”

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“…One specific recommended strategy is maintaining workflow logs to track digitization tasks and create data for future evaluation (Anderson and Maxwell, 2004;Lee, 2001). Digital production workflow logs also ensure accountability between all parties, especially in a collaborative digitization project (Anderson and Maxwell, 2004). Quality control is an important part of large-scale digital production and preservation, for both books and primary sources.…”

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“…4. For more articles on the importance of documenting standards, quality control guidelines, and management approaches, see: Aikens et al (2009); Anderson and Maxwell (2004); Conway (2000); Chapman (2000a); Chapman (2000b); Lee (2001); Frey and Reilly (1999); Smith (2000); Greenstein and Thorin (2002); Jordan (2006); Rieger (2000); Smith (2000); Maroso (2005).…”

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Cost and benefit of quality control visual checks in large-scale digitization of archival manuscripts

Chapman¹,

Leonard

2013

Library Hi Tech

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide much needed data to staff working with archival digitization on cost and benefit of visual checks during quality control workflows, and to encourage those in the field of digitization to take a data-driven approach to planning and workflow development as they transition into large-scale digitization. Design/methodology/approach – This is a case study of a cost benefit analysis at the Triangle Research Libraries Network. Data were tracked on time spent performing visual checks compared to scanning production and error type/discovery rates for the consortial grant “Content, context, and capacity: a collaborative large-scale digitization project on the long civil rights movement in North Carolina”. Findings – Findings show that 85 percent of time was spent scanning and 15 percent was spent on quality control with visual checks of every scan. Only one error was discovered for every 223 scans reviewed (0.4 percent of scans). Of the six types of error identified, only half cause critical user experience issues. Of all errors detected, only 32 percent fell into the critical category. One critical error was found for every 700 scans (0.1 percent of scans). If all the time spent performing visual checks were instead spent on scanning, production would have increased by 18 percent. Folders with 100 or more scans comprised only 11.5 percent of all folders and 37 percent of folders in this group contained errors (for comparison, only 8 percent of folders with 50 or more scans contained errors). Additionally, 52 percent of all critical errors occurred in these folders. The errors in larger folders represented 30 percent of total errors, and performing visual checks on the large folders required 32 percent of all visual check time. Practical implications – The data gathered during this research can be repurposed by others wishing to consider or conduct cost benefit analysis of visual check workflows for large-scale digitization. Originality/value – To the authors' knowledge, this is the only available dataset on rate of error detection and error type compared to time spent on quality control visual checks in digitization.

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Starting a Digitization Center

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Digitising library resources and building digital repositories in the University of Malawi Libraries

Digitising library resources and building digital repositories in the University of Malawi Libraries

Pushing the Limits beyond Catalogue Raisonnée: Step 1. Identifying digitalization challenges in museums

Cost and benefit of quality control visual checks in large-scale digitization of archival manuscripts

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