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