Links
General Information
- Collaboration in the Digital Age Glossary (PDF, 44KB)
Institute of Museum and Library Services and Heritage Preservation - Copyright Resources
University Committee on Copyright, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Copyright Town Meetings
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) - Curation Reference Manual
Digital Curation Centre - Digital Preservation Coalition Handbook
Digital Preservation Coalition - Digital Preservation Readiness Webliography
by Liz Bishoff, The Bishoff Group LLC and Holly South, former BCR Digital Collaboratives Grant Project Coordinator - Preservation Leaflet 6.9 Selected Cultural Heritage Digitization Bibliography
Dr. David Green, Principal, Knowledge Culture (2007)
Northeast Document Conservation Center - Preserving Access to Digital Information
National Library of Australia - Sustainability of Digital Formats Planning for Library of Congress Collections
Library of Congress - WebWise 2007 Conference Proceedings, Stewardship in the Digital Age: Managing Museum and Library Collections for Preservation and Use (PDF, 2.6. MB, link to parent page)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Assessment Tools
- Curation Manual, “Appraisal and Selection” (PDF, 270 KB, link to parent page)
Ross Harvey, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University (Australia), 2007
Digital Curation Centre - Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation (PDF, 211KB, link to parent page)
Council on Library and Information Resources - Surveying Digital Preservation Readiness: Toolkit for Cultural Organizations
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Best Practices and Standards
- BCR’s CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 2.0 (PDF, 1 MB, link to parent page)
Lyrasis - Digital Best Practices
Washington State Library - Digital Library Standards and Practices
Digital Library Federation - A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (PDF, 1.5 MB, link to parent page)
National Information Standards Organization - The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage - Open Archives Initiative
- Understanding PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies)
(PDF, 543K, link to parent page)
by Priscilla Caplan for the Library of Congress
Care of Digital Materials
- Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists
(PDF, 822KB, link to parent page)
Council on Library and Information Resources - Caring for CDs and DVDs (PDF, 205KB, link to parent page)
National Preservation Office, The British Library - Conserve O Gram 19/19 Care of Archival Compact Discs (PDF, 1MB, link to parent page)
National Park Service - Conserve O Gram 19/20 Care of Archival Digital and Magnetic Media (PDF, 1MB, link to parent page)
National Park Service
Collaboration
- Collaborative Digitization Programs in the United States
Lyrasis - Managing the Collective Collection
RLG, OCLC - Mass Digitization Collaborative
Lyrasis
Funding
- Business Planning for Cultural Heritage Institutions: A framework and resource guide to assist cultural heritage institutions with business planning for sustainability of digital asset management programs
Liz Bishoff and Nancy Allen, 2004
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) - Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Building a New Research Environment
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) - Digitizing Historical Records and Electronic Records Projects
National Historical Publications and Records Commission - Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (PDF, 20MB, link to parent page)
Library of Congress - Grants for Digital Collections/Tools
Institute for Museum and Library Services - Office of Digital Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities - Office of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the Humanities - Seeking Sustainability, Ricky Erway, RLG Program Officer, OCLC Programs and Research
(PDF, 87 KB, link to parent page)
RLG, OCLC
Training
- Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems (tutorial)
Cornell University Library
Some organizations that offer digital preservation workshops and training programs: - American Association for State and Local History
- Image Permanence Institute
- Museum Computer Network
- Northeast Document Conservation Center
- Society of American Archivists
- OCLC
Recordings
- C2C Online Community Webinar: Outsourcing Digitization
- C2C Denver Forum: Getting Started with Digitization
- C2C Denver Forum: Taking Control of Digital Collections
- C2C Denver Forum: Getting Help with Digital Preservation
- C2C Buffalo Forum: Digitizing Without Illusions. Jacob Nadal (presentation begins at 31:00)
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