Digital Curation Projects Made Easy

A Step-by-Step Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

By (author) Carmen Cowick

Publication date:

10 August 2018

Length of book:

136 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

239x158mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781538103500

Digital Curation Projects Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums outlines simple steps for accomplishing practical digitization and digital preservation projects for those with little experience, time, and/or resources. Following a general introduction, instructions for completing these commonplace digital curation projects are covered:

Photograph collections
Newspaper collection
Rare books
Art Collections
Oral Histories

Digital curation does not need to be reserved for big budgets or world-famous collections. In fact, a large part of digitization and digital preservation consists of practical projects that are done every day without much fanfare in libraries and archives around the world.

Part I: The Basics
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What Every Project Needs to Get Started

Part II: Digital Curation Projects Step-By-Step
Chapter 3: General Guidelines
Chapter 4: Photograph Collections
Chapter 5: Newspaper Collections
Chapter 6: Rare Books
Chapter 7: Art Collections
Chapter 8: Oral Histories

Overall, the book serves as an informative introduction to digital curation and should ably guide information professionals at institutions with both emergent and established digital collections programs. The real strength of the book is its emphasis on digital curation as an ongoing effort that needs to be integrated into organizational policies, procedures, and workflows—not just one-off projects to make some old photographs available online. The book offers plenty of help to jump-start information professionals new to digital curation.