Leading Questions Equipment Choices Personnel Training Planning Software Choices Physical Space Standards and Metadata Storage Digital Preservation Formats

Leading Questions

How much do you want or have to spend?

Do you have a technical person or team?

Do they have time to work on the back-end of software?

What is your purpose for digitizing materials?

Who is your audience?

What is the expectation of your audience?

Who are other stakeholders in the project? / Something about project hierarchy - who they have to answer to/County commission/Board, etc. - barrier or benefit to project? (might be more political than you want to get)

 

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Equipment Choices

• Scanners  

• Hardware

 

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Personnel

• Technical Knowledge

• Number of people

 

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Training

• Online

• Professional Development

 

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Planning

• Time Estimates

• Workflow

• Assignments

• Milestones

 

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Software Choices

• Web-delivery
  • Features desired
  • Proprietary
  • Open Source
• Image Processing
  • Adobe Photoshop
• Scanner Software
  • Silverfast
  • MagicScan
  • CanoScan
  • Others

 

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Physical Space

• Equipment Footprint

• Processing Area

• Lighting

 

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Standards and Metadata

• Digitization Standards

• Metadata Schemas

• Providing Access--Audience

 

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Storage

• Server Space (other options - like the My Book? or is that included with hardware above?  Many people have been very interested in the My Book, esp. when I tell them it only costs about $200)

• Formats

   

 

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Digital Preservation

• Server Space  (same comment as above - external HDs like My Book)

• Formats

 

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Formats

• Original

• Digital