digitised collections and services

gill hamiltondigital access managerg.hamilton@nls.uk

since early 2000s

in-house

some in partnership

mass digitisation

Scottish, topical, preservation, exhibitions

digitisation

print & manuscript collections

image collections

film and sound collections

map collections

challenges

selection

description

correction

use and promotion

and that old chestnut …. resourcing

selection

Request a digital copy

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description – semantic

We think this is Cambrai

Do you think it’s this

Cambrai?

Or this Cambrai?

correction – OCR

use – The Historic Maps API

http://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/

use – various methods

Wikimedian-in-Residence

open metadataand

digital content policy

Here today from NLSGill Hamilton, Digital Access ManagerTony Stuart, IS Development ManagerFred Sanderson, IPR Officer

National Library of Scotland http://www.nls.uk/NLS digital collections http://digital.nls.uk/NLS historic maps API http://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/ NLS map collections http://maps.nls.uk/NLS Screen Archive collection http://ssa.nls.uk/ Wikimedian-in-Residence Ally Crockford a.crockford@nls.uk