The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials

Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 3 Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 4 The Case for Good Practice......Page 6 History, Principles and Methodology of the NINCH Guide......Page 8 How To Use the Guide......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 Resources within your institution......Page 18 External Resources......Page 20 Resource challenges......Page 22 Funding......Page 23 Cost models......Page 24 Human Resources......Page 27 Equipment......Page 32 Metadata......Page 35 Project Management......Page 38 Work flow and costings......Page 40 Conclusion......Page 42 Characteristics of original material......Page 43 Digitization aims......Page 47 Digitization issues......Page 59 Cost-benefit analysis......Page 61 Copyright......Page 66 Seeking permission to use copyrighted material......Page 74 Licensing schemes......Page 75 Rights of privacy......Page 83 Other intellectual property concerns......Page 85 Technologies for copyright management and protection......Page 87 Introduction......Page 89 Character encoding......Page 93 Text markup......Page 94 Introduction......Page 107 Planning for Image Capture......Page 108 Process and Management Issues......Page 115 Conclusion......Page 123 Introduction......Page 125 Why digitize?......Page 126 Access to analog playback devices......Page 127 Decision points for audio and video capture......Page 129 Standards and formats: audio......Page 133 Sampling rates......Page 137 Standards and formats: video......Page 139 Post-capture processing......Page 142 Options for delivery and management......Page 144 Introduction......Page 147 Digital objects......Page 148 Audio and moving image materials......Page 154 Metadata......Page 155 Conclusion......Page 156 Why collaborate?......Page 157 Types of collaboration......Page 158 Managing collaboration and partnership agreements......Page 163 Delivery options......Page 167 Modes of access......Page 170 Conclusion......Page 175 Introduction......Page 176 Funding......Page 177 Effective strategies and planning towards sustainability......Page 180 Building and sustaining digital collections: NINCH/CLIR models......Page 182 Introduction......Page 184 Types of evaluation......Page 186 Evaluation methods and tools......Page 187 Evaluation and privacy issues......Page 192 Conclusion......Page 193 The need for digital asset management......Page 194 Digital Asset Management Systems......Page 195 Developing a DAM strategy......Page 197 Conclusion......Page 201 Introduction......Page 203 Why preserve?......Page 204 Addressing the issues......Page 209 Organizational strategies......Page 217 Conclusion......Page 218 Display devices......Page 219 Printers......Page 221 Audio Equipment......Page 222 Storage devices and......Page 224 What is metadata?......Page 227 Audio-visual metadata......Page 228 Metadata standards......Page 229 General Principles......Page 232 Digital Audio and Video Capture......Page 233 Digital Image Capture......Page 234 Digital Text Capture......Page 235 References......Page 236 Abbreviations Used in the Guide......Page 239