Managing Digital Projects

See sections below:

• Planning
• Budgeting
• Measuring Results
• Planning for Persistence and Preservation
• Workflow

Planning

• Colet, Linda Serenson. "Planning an Imaging Project," in Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging (Digital Library Federation and Research Libraries Group, 2000).
  (http://www.rlg.org/visguides/visguide1.html)
• National Preservation Office (NPO). Managing the Digitization of Library, Archive and Museum Materials (NPO, The British Library, 2001).
  (http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/dig.pdf)
• Research Libraries Group. Recommended Background for Digitizing Decisions.
  (http://www.rlg.org/culturalres/pointers.html). The RLG Cultural Materials Initiative has put up this great site with information about selection, outsourcing, cost estimating, imaging, text, audio and motion.
• Collaborative Digitization Program. Project Management (http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/projectManagement/index.cfm)

Budgeting

• Hughes, Lorna. The Price of Digitization: New Cost Models for Cultural and Educational Institutions (NINCH and Innodata, 2003). (http://www.ninch.org/forum/price.report.html)
• Puglia, Steven. "The Costs of Digital Imaging Projects." RLG DigiNews, vol. 3, no. 5 (October 15, 1999).
  (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-5.html)
• Research Libraries Group. Worksheet for Estimating Digital Reformatting Costs (1998).
  (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/RLGWorksheet.pdf).

Measuring Results

• Association of Research Libraries. Measures for Electronic (accessed Nov. 2002).
  (http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/emetrics/).

Planning for Persistence and Preservation

• Hodge, Gail M. "Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach." D-Lib Magazine (Jan. 2000).
  (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html). An article covering the entire "life cycle" of a digitization project.
• Jones, Maggie and Neil Beagrie. Preservation Management of Digital Materials: a Handbook (Digital Preservation Coalition, 2002). (http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/index.html)
• Library of Congress. Caring for Your Collections.
  (http://www.loc.gov/preserv/careothr.html). Detailed assistance on the care, storage, and handling of fragile materials.
• National Library of Australia. Preserving Access to Digital Information: A Gateway to Digital Preservation Resources.
  (http://www.nla.gov.au/padi). This site contains many useful links to articles, research, and digital preservation projects.
• Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). Preservation 101.
  (http://www.nedcc.org/p101cs/p101wel.htm). Excellent Online Tutorial by NEDCC touching on a wide-range of preservation issues.
• Pace, Andrew K. "Coming Full Circle: Digital Preservation: Everything New Is Old Again." Computers in Libraries (Feb. 2000).
  (http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/feb00/pace.htm). An article from Computers in Libraries magazine that details the need for migration and refreshment of digital resources.

Workflow

• Chapman, Stephen and William Comstock. "Digital Imaging Production Services at the Harvard College Library."
  (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-6.html#feature1). RLG DigiNews (Dec. 5, 2000). A look inside the planning and workflow design of a project at the Harvard College Library in 1999.
• Fleischhauer, Carl. Steps in the Digitization Process (National Digital Library Program, Library of Congress, 1996).
  (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/stepsdig.html). A brief outline of steps in creating digital images including collection preparation, capture, quality review, archiving the results, and preparing the framework.
• Hughes, Carol Ann. "Lessons Learned: Digitization of the Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries." D-Lib Magazine (June 2000).
  (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june00/hughes/06hughes.html). Includes designing the workflow.