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Noted archivist and library educator Frederick Stielow provides a comprehensive guide to efficiently adding content to the Web--and to creating Web-based descriptions and finding aids that will draw surfers to the library's, museum's, or other repository's Web site that houses them. All major digital approaches and languages--SGML, XML, and EAD (Encoded Archival Description)--as well as established descriptive standards such as the Dublin Core and Open URL are covered. Options for capturing images, sounds, and video resources and automated techniques for converting optical characters are explained step-by-step. As he did is his earlier critically acclaimed "Creating Virtual Libraries, Stielow provides much more than just technical guidance: he also discusses how to integrate digital archives (and their associated records) with turnkey library automation systems and provides a thorough discussion of policies regarding what to digitize and post. Here is the ideal primer for project management and the perfect general guide for managing digital archives.
| List of Figures | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Planning the Digitization Project | p. 1 |
| Project Planning | p. 1 |
| Setup | p. 2 |
| Systems analysis methodology | p. 3 |
| Electronic records management | p. 5 |
| Kiss and other hints | p. 5 |
| Web=Word Processing++ | p. 7 |
| Hypertext | p. 7 |
| Metadata | p. 7 |
| Web Technology Overview | p. 8 |
| Internet | p. 9 |
| HTTP | p. 10 |
| HTML: Hypertext Markup Language | p. 10 |
| External contributions | p. 13 |
| XML (RDF) | p. 15 |
| Understanding Digitized Finding Aids | p. 19 |
| Preliminaries | p. 19 |
| Problem Definition | p. 19 |
| Finding aid background | p. 20 |
| Data Gathering | p. 24 |
| Internal research | p. 24 |
| External research | p. 26 |
| Automation factors | p. 27 |
| Analysis | p. 28 |
| General assessment | p. 28 |
| Automation factors | p. 29 |
| Recon choices | p. 31 |
| Solutions | p. 31 |
| Automation approaches | p. 32 |
| Modeling | p. 34 |
| Supplemental materials | p. 35 |
| Retrospective tactics | p. 37 |
| Pilot | p. 39 |
| Alpha preparations | p. 39 |
| Beta testing | p. 40 |
| Implementation | p. 41 |
| Creating Effective Web Finding Aids | p. 43 |
| Preliminaries | p. 43 |
| Exercise | p. 43 |
| More Data Gathering | p. 43 |
| Institutional re-research | p. 44 |
| Software factors | p. 44 |
| HTML elements | p. 46 |
| Web page design | p. 48 |
| Analysis | p. 51 |
| Web mounting | p. 51 |
| Software choice | p. 52 |
| Output options | p. 52 |
| Solutions | p. 53 |
| Supplemental resources | p. 57 |
| Pilot | p. 59 |
| Alpha stage | p. 59 |
| Beta testing | p. 63 |
| Implementation | p. 66 |
| MS Word training | p. 66 |
| Considering SGML, EAD, XML and Database Options | p. 75 |
| SGML Introduction | p. 75 |
| Data entry | p. 75 |
| Document Type Definitions | p. 76 |
| Tag Libraries | p. 77 |
| Easing into the EAD DTD | p. 77 |
| Problems | p. 85 |
| XML Phase | p. 86 |
| Getting started | p. 86 |
| XMetal Examples | p. 87 |
| Considering XMetal Stylesheets | p. 91 |
| DBMS Alternative | p. 92 |
| Software overview | p. 92 |
| Web convergence | p. 93 |
| Exploring Leading Library and Museum Automation System | p. 97 |
| Libraries and Cataloging | p. 97 |
| MARC | p. 98 |
| NUCMC option | p. 99 |
| Commercial Partners | p. 103 |
| ILS component | p. 104 |
| Database aggregators | p. 105 |
| Online Bibliographic Utilities | p. 106 |
| RLG activities | p. 106 |
| OCLC | p. 107 |
| Web Adventures | p. 110 |
| Persistent addresses | p. 110 |
| Open URL | p. 111 |
| XML and MARC DTD | p. 113 |
| Museum Context | p. 114 |
| PastPerfect software | p. 114 |
| CIMI and MIDIIS DTD | p. 117 |
| Establishing Policies and Techniques for Digital Imaging | p. 119 |
| Policy Development | p. 119 |
| Photocopiers and copyright | p. 120 |
| Asserting copyright | p. 124 |
| Other concerns | p. 126 |
| Appraisal and selection | p. 128 |
| Procedures for Digitizing | p. 131 |
| Imaging Projects | p. 131 |
| Scanning basics | p. 131 |
| PDF alternative | p. 136 |
| Equipment choices | p. 137 |
| Project strategies | p. 140 |
| OCR Options | p. 145 |
| Media Lagniappe | p. 146 |
| Technical Considerations | p. 148 |
| Implementation | p. 149 |
| Creating the Web Site and Display Options | p. 151 |
| Site Overview | p. 151 |
| Web site guidance | p. 152 |
| Gateway | p. 155 |
| Homepage functions | p. 156 |
| Digital access links | p. 157 |
| Site search engine | p. 158 |
| Description Strata | p. 160 |
| Considering finding aids | p. 160 |
| Pathfinders | p. 163 |
| Displays | p. 164 |
| Online exhibits | p. 165 |
| K-12 document packets | p. 167 |
| Courseware | p. 168 |
| Resource Strata | p. 170 |
| Outsourcing | p. 170 |
| RFI/RFP | p. 170 |
| Contracts | p. 171 |
| Maintaining and Preserving Digital Archives | p. 173 |
| Web Museums | p. 173 |
| Web reliance | p. 174 |
| Tool skills | p. 175 |
| Institutional Records | p. 178 |
| The record | p. 178 |
| ERM skill set | p. 179 |
| Software requirements | p. 185 |
| Digital Libraries | p. 189 |
| Preservation strategies | p. 190 |
| Research libraries | p. 194 |
| Library of Congress | p. 195 |
| IMLS framework | p. 196 |
| OAIS reference model | p. 198 |
| METS and metadata | p. 200 |
| Trusted repositories | p. 204 |
| Afterword: Setting the Historical Context | p. 207 |
| Webliography | p. 213 |
| Index | p. 223 |
| About the Author | p. 229 |
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ISBN: 9781555704636
ISBN-10: 1555704638
Series: How-to-do-it Manuals
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 375
Published: January 2003
Dimensions (cm): 27.9 x 21.6
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.689
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