DATE	ASSIGNMENT
September 1	Introductions, Course Setup & Key Concepts A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections: http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html
September 8	Why Digitize? "What do you do with a million books"by Gregory Crane (Diglib Magazine March, 2006) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html “The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson (Wired, Oct. 2004) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html?pg=1&topic=tail&topic_set= (~5 pages) “Riding the Long Tail: Libraries Confront the World of Infinite Content Supply and Demand” by John Blossom http://www.shore.com/commentary/newsanal/items/2005/20050627longtail.html (~2 pages) Handbook for Digital Projects, section 2 “Overview: Rationale for Digitization and Preservation.” http://www.nedcc.org/digital/ii.htm (pp. 15 – 29) (15 pp) “Why Digitize?” by Abby Smith http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html (~13 pages)
September 15	Selecting Collections & Materials for Digitization Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell Digital Imaging Tutorial: Chapter 1: Introduction (http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/intro/intro-01.html) Moving Theory into Practice: Cornell Digital Imaging Tutorial: Chapter 2: Selection (http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/selection/selection-01.html) SAMPLE SELECTION CRITERIA - Scan through Library of Congress, "Selection Criteria for Preservation Digital Reformatting" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presselection.html) Columbia University, "Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects" (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria.html) University of California, "Selection Criteria for Digitization" (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/ucpag/digselec.html) Harvard University, "Selection for Digitization: a Decision-Making Matrix" (http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/matrix.html) National Agricultural Library, "Selection Criteria and Guidelines" (http://preserve.nal.usda.gov:8300/projects/criteria.htm_ Oxford University, "Decision Matrices and Workflows"  (Appendix B) (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/report.html) National Library of Australia Digitisation Policy, 2000-2004. (http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/digitisation.html)
September 22	Project Planning & Management Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial, Chapter 9: Management. (http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/management/management-01.html) Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial, Chapter 6.A: Technical Infrastructure – Digitization Chain (http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/technical/technicalA-01.html)  “A Study into the Effect of Digitization Projects on the Management & Stability of Historic Photograph Collections” by Veronica Davis-Perkins, et al., (ECDL 2005). http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~pc/publications/2005/ECDLpreprint.pdf (12 pgs)
September 29	Rights Management Section 5 in Handbook for Digital Projects, “Overview of Legal Issues for Digitization” http://www.nedcc.org/digital/v.htm (pp. 74 – 92) (18 pgs) “Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States” http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/copyrightterm.pdf (4 pages) “Library Digitization Projects and Copyright.” http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm Notice that this is a multi-part article. Optional: “Digitizing Special Collections: Your ‘Deed of Gift Form’ Said What?” http://www.hurstassociates.com/NYLA.ppt “A Guide to Deed of Gifts” http://www.archivists.org/catalog/deed_of_gift.asp Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues. http://www.virtuallymissouri.org/guidelines/copyright_rev2.pdf "Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age." http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/pritcher/02pritcher.html
October 6	Metadata Introduction to Metadata, http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/ Introduction (1 pp.) Setting the Stage (10 pp.) Metadata and the World Wide Web (17 pp.) Crosswalks: The Path to Universal Access? (8 pp.) Library of Congress: METS Overview and Tutorial (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.v2.htm) Research Libraries Group. Automatic Exposure: Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20462&Printable=1&Article_ID=1676)
October 13   GUEST TEACHER :: URI KOLODNEY       IP Essay DUE	Text Handbook for Digital Projects, Chapter 6: “Technical Primer” (pp. 93 – 111) http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vi.htm Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial: Chapter 6B: Technical Infrastructure: Image Creation (http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/technical/technicalB-01.html) Handbook for Digital Projects, Section 7: Guidelines from Case Studies “Working with Printed Text and Manuscripts” http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vii.htm#1 “An OCR Case Study”  http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vii.htm#3 Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections: Text (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/text.shtml)
October 20   GUEST TEACHER :: URI KOLODNEY	Text & Images Text Encoding Initiative. Encoding for Interchange: An Introduction to the TEI http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/teiu5_split_en.html UVA Text and Image Scanning Services: Text Scanning – Some Examples: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/scan-train.html UVA Electronic Text Center: Archival Digital Image Creation. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/specscan.html
October 27 GUEST TEACHER :: URI KOLODNEY	Images Handbook for Digital Projects, Section 7: Guidelines from Case Studies “Working with Photographs” http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vii.htm#2 “Digitization of Maps and Other Oversize Documents” http://www.nedcc.org/digital/vii.htm#4 Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com) Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections: Still Images (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/still.shtml)
November 3   GUEST TEACHER :: JASON MOLIN	Audio Digital Audio Best Practices, version 2.0, Colorado Digitization Program, Nov. 2005 (40 pp.), http://www.cdpheritage.org/digital/audio/documents/CDPDABP_1-2.pdf NINCH Guide to Good Practice. Chapter 7. Audio / Video Capture & Management. http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/VII/ “Planning An Audio Preservation Transfer Project” http://www.safesoundarchive.com/PDF/AudioPreservProjectPlanning.pdf (6 pp.) Optional: Digital Recording: Here to Stay. (5 pp.) http://www.ttctranscriptions.com/Digitalvsanalog.html The Holy Grail of Digital Recording. (7 pp.) http://www.ttctranscriptions.com/DigitalRecordingHolyGrail.html Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections: Sound (Audio): (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/sound.shtml)
November 10 Text / Image Digitization Project DUE GUEST TEACHER :: JASON MOLIN	Audio Readings from November 3
November 17   GUEST TEACHER :: QUINN STEWART	Video & Multimedia Howard Wachtlar & Michael G. Christel. Digital Video Archives: Managing through Metadata. In Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources. 2002. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/video.html Optional: Judith Thomas. “Digital Video, the Final Frontier.” In Library Journal netConnect – January 2004. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA371213& Conservation Online (COOL) : Video Preservation Page http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/video/ Sustainability of Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections: Moving Images (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/video.shtml)
November 24 Audio Digitization DUE Tuesday before Thanksgiving No Class - Thanksgiving
December 1 GUEST TEACHER :: QUINN STEWART	Video and Multimedia Readings from November 17
December 8   GUEST SPEAKER :: BRUCE PENNYCOOK             Video Digitization DUE	Storage, Retrieval & Preservation Jerome McDonough. “Preservation Worthy Digital Video; or, How to Drive Your Library into Chapter 11.” Paper presented at the AIC Electronic Media Group 2004 Meeting in Portlan, Oregon. http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/library/pdf/mcdonough/McDonough-EMG2004.pdf Brian Lavoie. “Meeting the Challenges of Digital Preservation: The OAIS Reference Model.” OCLC Newsletter, no. 243, pp. 26 – 30. http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000001747 (article at page 26 through 30) Richard Reinhart. "The Straw that Broke the Museum's Back? Collecting and Preserving Digital Media Art Works for the Next Century" Switch, Issue 14: http://switch.sjsu.edu/~switch/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=233 Optional: Digital Preservation Coalition: Decision Tree for Selection of Digital Materials for Long-Term Retention http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/dec-tree.html “Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository: Meeting the Needs of Research Resources.” http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf OAIS Modeled Repositories: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=377 Handbook for Digital Projects; Section 8: Vendor Relations. http://www.nedcc.org/digital/viii.htm RLG Guidelines for Creating a Request for Proposal For Digital Imaging Services. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/RFPGuidelines.pdf Predicting the Life Expectancy of Modern Tape and Optical Media http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20744#article3

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