The MetaArchive Cooperative are seeking curators of digital newspaper collections—both born-digital and digitized—to complete a brief survey (link included below) about the digital preservation needs of these collections.
e-Infrastructures for Cultural Heritage is the first of three international conferences taking place in the course of the DC-NET project. Besides providing a presentation of the project and its preliminary results, the conference aims to open a debate on the possibilities e-infrastructures offer for services and research in the cultural heritage sector and on how the two communities (e-infrastructure operators and cultural heritage institutions) could better cooperate in the future not forgetting the necessary strong involvement of the research community.
In het boek 'Changing our textual minds: towards a digital order of knowledge' onderzoekt professor Adriaan van der Weel welke invloed de digitalisering van het boek heeft op de manier waarop kennis wordt overgedragen. De studie is kosteloos te downloaden.
Hoewel het ebook al 40 jaar bestaat is er nog maar weinig wetenschappelijk onderzoek...
Many different types of institution make up the cultural sector, and within this diverse universe, the “Numeric” study has attempted to establish a framework where the progress towards digitising the cultural heritage of Europe can be measured in statistical terms. This involved development and testing of the framework and the associated...
Rapport over trends en ontwikkelingen op het gebied van e-boeken in de Verenigde Staten, het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Nederland en Duitsland.
This study examines trends and developments in the eBooks and eReaders market in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany, and discusses major challenges and key questions for the...
This book brings together international experience of business planning for digital libraries: the business case, the planning processes involved, the costs and benefits, practice and standards, and comparison with the traditional library where appropriate. Although there is a vast literature already on other aspects of digital libraries, business...
This document is a result of the Minerva project’s good practice working group (WP 6). It presents a practical handbook to the establishment, execution and management of digitisation projects, with particular focus on the cultural area (libraries, museums, archives). The target audience of this handbook is teams within and across cultural...
- State of the art: de actuele stand van zaken rond digitale langetermijnbewaring
- Randvoorwaarden: beleid, verantwoordelijkheden en selectiecriteria
- Het referentiemodel OAIS
- Betrouwbaarheid van digitale langetermijnarchieven: authenticiteit en beveiliging
- Metadatastandaarden voor digitale langetermijnbewaring (METS, PREMIS, LMER,...
I. Strategische beslissingen nemen
-- 1. Waarom digitaliseren?
-- 2. Materiaal selecteren voor digitalisering
-- 3. Intellectueel eigendom, copyright en andere juridische issues
-- 4. Projectmanagement en de organisatie
-- 5. Het belang van samenwerking
II. Collecties digitaliseren
-- 6. Projectplanning en -financiering
-- 7. Een...
This leaflet aims to introduce the library, archive and museum professional to the management of the digitisation process, of digitisation projects and of digital image archives. It does not cover the technical detail of image capture and storage, nor the processing of text based materials by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for full-text...
