Approaches to digitisation: Planning for digitisation

Richard Davies The British Library

09/02/11RLUK / BL Preservation Advisory Centre

Overview

Policy and strategy

Funding and staffing

Sustainability

Why? Developing a strategy

Prioritisation for the BL

Unique to the British Library

collection

Relevance to the UK cultural

heritage

Virtual reunification of collections

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Developing a Vision or Strategy

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Who are we?

Where could we go?

Where should we go?

How do we get there?

How? Developing policies

Digitisation Programme

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Input from….

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IT O

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IT Architecture

Curators

Product Developm

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Fu

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raising

Strategic Marketing

Licensing & IPW

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Preservation

Digitisation Projects

Resource Discovery

Strategic

Sign off from….

Operational Digitisation Projects

What to digitise

What’s unique / important / relevant?

What’s needed?

What’s possible?

Cost

Copyright

Conservation

Project Planning - Lifecycle approach

Scoping Preparation Digitisation Post-processing Metadata Preservation Access

Ongoing Project Activities

Quality Assurance

Project Management

Sustainability Planning

Current & Future Challenges

Funding

Storage & Digital Preservation

Sustainability - Partnerships Technical Standards

OCR

User Collaboration

National / International Coordination

Funding

Internal / External

Documentation

Plans

Bids

Business Cases

Recent Funding Example

JISC Rapid Digitisation Call

£400,000 total funding

Up to 7 projects

45 bids received

http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2010/10/grant1610.aspx

Sustainability

Lifecycle project planning

Editorial & Technical sustainability

Align with organisational objectives

Engage with community

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Where to look? Further guidance

Organisations & Services

Projects

Questions?

e richard.davies@bl.ukt +44 (0) 20 7412 7182

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