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RLG Research call to action, Nov. 2009
2010: World areas and languages of national need: US gov
October 9, 2009 article on Thomson Reuters report
Chinese Internet Search engine
Thomson Reuters report of October 2009.
by Paul T. Jaeger, Jimmy Lin, Justin M. Grimes, and Shannon N. Simmons
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 5 - 4 May 2009
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2456/2171
Robert Latham
First Monday, volume 11, number 9 (September 2006),
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/latham/index.html
by Kate Williams and Hui Yan
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 - 5 October 2009
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2576/2306
Open Access (Lund) conference proceedings
article/author fees specified for various OA publishers
August 31, 2009
Harzing.com research/citation management metrics
Constance Malpas and Dennis Massie, RLG meeting, June 2009
First Monday, vol. 14, no. 4, 6 April 2009 by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
in Academic matters: The Journal of Higher Education by Leslie Chan, April 14, 2009
CHE, May 16, 2008
Feb. 2009 joint statement of AAU, ARL, CNI & NASULGC
Restricted access to this article published online 7 April 2009 in NATURE: DOI: 10.1038/438690a
ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies)
John Willinsky's blog on Sept. 28th 2008
Charles Bailey
Portico commentary by LOCKSS advocate.
ARL report, May 2009
Animation from Digital Preservation Europe
Indiana University
This list of Penn-affiliated authors, editors and reviewers has not been verified by U Penn.
March 2009 report of the UK's Research Information Network
UR Research: Item 1802/6053
Educause bibliography, Jan. 21, 2009
Federal plan for advanced networking research and development
11758.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Interim (Dec. 2008) report of the Task Force: Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation
Edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
main.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
Dec. 18, 2008 posting
RLG's take on the UK's RAE results.
Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Museum studies
Interim Report, Dec. 2008, of Blue Ribbon Commission.
Harvard's DH initiative
Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University
Shenxiao_Tong_CLBAS_021208.pdf (application/pdf Object), Dec. 2008
Lesley_Pitman_CLBAS_021208.pdf (application/pdf Object); Dec. 2008 report from the UK Center fo East European Language Based Area Studies
Paul_Auchterlonie_CLBAS_021208.pdf (application/pdf Object), U of Exeter
FreeOurLibraries.pdf (application/pdf Object)
150.pdf (application/pdf Object): includes a model of the curation process
Sci Report Final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Project Briefing-Spring 2006 Task Force Meeting
This is a gallery of innovative and exemplary programs in the 6 disciplines studied in this Carnegie initiative: Chemsitry, Education, English, History, Math, and Neuroscience.
5-year project studying 6 disciplines: chemistry, education, English, history, mathemeatics and neuroscience: 2002-05
Project Briefing-Fall 2008 Task Force Meeting
monser06.pdf (application/pdf Object)
ecm0803.pdf (application/pdf Object), Educause ECAR report, June 2008
Portfolio8_BestPracticesGuide.pdf (application/pdf Object), UC-Berkeley Media Vault Program
Interactive stats Web site for ARL (~114 US research libraries) that facilities comparative institutional data.
arl-br-256-grad.pdf (application/pdf Object)
University of Rochester study
arl-br-257-bound.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Bill Kasdorf, 5 March 2008
Michael Keller's presentation to Stanford's Academic Senate, 13 Nov 2008
Mellon funded project with Jospeh Espito as PI in collaboration with the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education.
AAUP plenary, 27 June 2008
2007 Annual Report
By David Green and Michael Roy, July/August 2008 EDUCAUSE review.
ERM0842.pdf (application/pdf Object)
James A. Evans,
18 JULY 2008 VOL 321 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org
395.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Science 18 July 2008
DOI 10.1126/science.321.5887.329a
reports on James Evans (U Chicago) study of July 18, 2008;
329a.pdf (application/pdf Object)
NYU Today, vol. 20, issue 98
NYU Today, Vol. 18, issue 98
NYU Today, vol. 20, issue 98, Fall Research issue 2007
RP-8-2008.pdf (application/pdf Object), April 2008
UC system report on university publishing
RRS map.png (image)
Elsevier Library Connect Pamphlet: Introductory Comments by Mayur Amin
No. 10, ed. 1, 2007
Bibliography2_5_2forWeb.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Bibliography for Vassar/CLIR symposium
WP6UniversalLibraries2.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Bart Harloe and Helene Williams for Vassar/CLIR symposium
WP5LibsPublCreatingContent1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Eric Pumroy for Vassar/CLIR symopsium
WP4UserBehavi1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Robert Kieft and Peggy Seiden for Vassar/CLIR symposium
WP3BudgetsandOrgModels1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
By Sabrina Pape and Barbara Jones for Vassar/CLIR symposium
WP2UsersandSpaces1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
By Bart Harloe and Helene Williams for Vassar/CLIR symposium
WP1CollabCollDevModels1.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Robert Kieft for Vassar/CLIR symposium
article by Kevin Guthrie citing Ithaka's new report on "Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resoruces." may 2008
sca_ithaka_sustainability_report-final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Authors: Kevin Guthrie, Rebecca Griffiths, Nancy Maron
Cornell University
http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/pp/ere/96e-cattoc.cfm
June 23, 2008
Feb 28, 2008
sca_ithaka_sustainability_report-final.pdf (application/pdf Object)
May 2008
June 20, 2008
um-conf08-draft.pdf (application/pdf Object)
EQM08211.pdf (application/pdf Object); by Klara Jelinkova et al., Educause Quarterly, 2, 2008:78-82.
Richard Poynder ,June 11, 2008
access_pa_dig_rep_guidelines.pdf (application/pdf Object)
20021024_MellonVIReportFinal.pdf (application/pdf Object); 2002 report by Judy Luther of Informed Strategies.
Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection
Roger C. Schonfeld, Brian F. Lavoie
Journal of Electonic Publishing
Ann Arbor, MI: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan, University Library
vol. 9, no. 2, Summer 2006
May 25, 2008, Lorcan Dempsey's weblog
Vol. 9, No.26 (2008)
John Bradley, JoDi, May 2008
May 13, 2008, Dempsey proposes 4 sources of metadata:
- Professional: The curatorial professions have made major investments in knowledge organization, through the development and application of cataloging rules, controlled vocabularies, authorities, gazetteers, and so on.
- Contributed: A major phenomenon of recent years has been the emergence of many sites which invite, aggregate and mine data contributed by users, and mobilize that data to rank, recommend and relate resources. This data includes tags, reviews, ratings, further details, and so on.
- Programmatically promoted: We are handling more digital materials, where it is possible to programmatically identify and promote metadata from resources themselves or groups of resources. We will also do more to mine collections, including collections of metadata, to discern pattern and relations. We are increasingly familiar with clustering, entity identification, automatic classification and other approaches.
- Intentional: I have used this term to refer to the data that we are collecting about use and usage. Pagerank is based on aggregate linking choices. Amazon recommendations are based on aggregate purchase choices.
May 14, 2008
IMLS - Project Profiles - Featured Project Profiles
by Kathleen Murry and Mark Phillips (University of North Texas), June 2006 (?)
murrayPhillips_paper_9-3.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The iKit is a dynamically-driven service for retrieving tools such as completed final reports, case studies and downloadable software, etc. created as a result of JISC funded research in areas relating to resource discovery.
The intended audience includes developers and technical planners involved in research into resource discovery solutions.
Please use the search and navigation options on the left, or alternatively browse via the links in the below JISC Information Environment conceptual map.
JISC Information Environment conceptual map
This ECAR research study was designed in collaboration with the Association of American Medical Colleges to analyze the practices and perspectives of IT organizations that support the academic research enterprise in medical schools and colleges. As the potential of biotechnology, proteomics, informatics, computational genomics, and other IT-intensive disciplines continue to offer breakthroughs in medicine, research in these fields requires greater and higher-level technology resources for infrastructure as well as IT support and services. The study is based on the results of a web-based survey sent to 125 medical schools and colleges in the United States, as well as qualitative interviews with leaders at 10 institutions. Respondents to the survey were predominantly chief information officers or other top administrators from 50 medical institutions, yielding a response rate of 39.7 percent. The findings contained in this report echo the results of the ECAR 2006 study, IT Engagement in Research: A Baseline Study, illustrating that the role and importance of IT in research is growing, while funding and budget decisions remain difficult. A corporate edition is available here.
Citation for This Work: Nelson, Mark R. IT Engagement in Research: A View of Medical School Practice (Research Study, Vol. 1). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar.
The February 2008 issue of Anthropology News (49[2]) features an In Focus thematic commentary series on Open Access. Recognizing that this topic is of great interest to AAA members and larger anthropological communities, we will now feature an Open Access blog where members and non-members alike can offer both their reactions to the In Focus series and their general thoughts on the Open Access issue. To facilitate this discussion, full-text series articles will be available here Feb 1–March 1, after which all five articles will be archived at AnthroSource and AN Archives.
JCDL07poster_bollen.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez, Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory
U.S. Dept. of Energy with British Library and other sources:
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.
D-Lib Magazine | |
| James W. Marcum |
Stephen G. Nichols' article about the Roman de la rose digital initiative at Johns Hopkins.
Journal of Electronic Publishing, 10/3, 2008.
Stuart Dunn and Tobias Blanke, King's College London
D-Lib Magazine, January/February 2008, vol. 14, no. 1/2.
Mark Ware, Publishing Research Consortium (London), January 25, 2008
Peer review rules; some prefer moving towards double-blind reviewing.
Also contains a listing of other historical collegiate newspapers at:
American University
Franklin and Marshall
Georgetown
Gettysburg
ithaca
Lincoln University of PA
University of Missouri
Northwestern
Penn State University
Ohio State University
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS, UK): a series of guides covering specific disciplines and types of materials.
As of January 2008: Archaeology; History; Performing Arts; Literature, Language, and Linguistics; and Visual Arts
Service-WG-Initial-Report-draft-07.pdf (application/pdf Object)
June 2005
Michael Jensen is director of strategic Web communications for the National Academies.
In the Web 3.0 world, we will also start seeing heavily computed reputation-and-authority metrics, based on many of the kinds of elements now used, as well as on elements that can be computed only in an information-rich, user-engaged environment. Given the inevitable advances in technology, remarkable things are likely to happen. In a world of unlimited computer processing, Authority 3.0 will probably include (the list is long, which itself is a sign of how sophisticated our new authority makers will have to be):
- Prestige of the publisher (if any).
- Prestige of peer prereviewers (if any).
- Prestige of commenters and other participants.
- Percentage of a document quoted in other documents.
- Raw links to the document.
- Valued links, in which the values of the linker and all his or her other links are also considered.
- Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion.
- Nature of the language in comments: positive, negative, interconnective, expanded, clarified, reinterpreted.
- Quality of the context: What else is on the site that holds the document, and what's its authority status?
- Percentage of phrases that are valued by a disciplinary community.
- Quality of author's institutional affiliation(s).
- Significance of author's other work.
- Amount of author's participation in other valued projects, as commenter, editor, etc.
- Reference network: the significance rating of all the texts the author has touched, viewed, read.
- Length of time a document has existed.
- Inclusion of a document in lists of "best of," in syllabi, indexes, and other human-selected distillations.
- Types of tags assigned to it, the terms used, the authority of the taggers, the authority of the tagging system.
None of those measures could be computed reasonably by human beings. They differ from current models mostly by their feasible computability in a digital environment where all elements can be weighted and measured, and where digital interconnections provide computable context.
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Managing IPR in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories
John Casey, Jackie Proven & David Dripps; UK
By Jane Segal, Lisa Spiro and Pamela Francis, May 2007
GeneralSurveyThemesMay07.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Michael Jensen is director of strategic Web communications for the National Academies.
In the Web 3.0 world, we will also start seeing heavily computed reputation-and-authority metrics, based on many of the kinds of elements now used, as well as on elements that can be computed only in an information-rich, user-engaged environment. Given the inevitable advances in technology, remarkable things are likely to happen. In a world of unlimited computer processing, Authority 3.0 will probably include (the list is long, which itself is a sign of how sophisticated our new authority makers will have to be):
- Prestige of the publisher (if any).
- Prestige of peer prereviewers (if any).
- Prestige of commenters and other participants.
- Percentage of a document quoted in other documents.
- Raw links to the document.
- Valued links, in which the values of the linker and all his or her other links are also considered.
- Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion.
- Nature of the language in comments: positive, negative, interconnective, expanded, clarified, reinterpreted.
- Quality of the context: What else is on the site that holds the document, and what's its authority status?
- Percentage of phrases that are valued by a disciplinary community.
- Quality of author's institutional affiliation(s).
- Significance of author's other work.
- Amount of author's participation in other valued projects, as commenter, editor, etc.
- Reference network: the significance rating of all the texts the author has touched, viewed, read.
- Length of time a document has existed.
- Inclusion of a document in lists of "best of," in syllabi, indexes, and other human-selected distillations.
- Types of tags assigned to it, the terms used, the authority of the taggers, the authority of the tagging system.
None of those measures could be computed reasonably by human beings. They differ from current models mostly by their feasible computability in a digital environment where all elements can be weighted and measured, and where digital interconnections provide computable context.
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union
In the first stage, papers that pass a rapid access peer-review are immediately published on the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions (ACPD) website. They are then subject to Interactive Public Discussion, during which the referees' comments (anonymous or attributed), additional short comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed) and the authors' replies are also published in ACPD. In the second stage, the peer-review process is completed and, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in ACP. To ensure publication precedence for authors, and to provide a lasting record of scientific discussion, ACPD and ACP are both ISSN-registered, permanently archived and fully citable.
by Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich, and Andrew C. Herkovic, First Monday, vol. 8, no. 5, 5-May 2003
Libraries in the future will undertake local control, especially for long-term preservation and accessibility of digital as well as analog collections. Failure to embrace that role would cause libraries and librarians rapidly to lose relevance and value as Internet and other digital resources develop. Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity, which — contrary to the irrational exuberance of making everything available to everybody — is vital to providing service to communities of readers. Librarians need new tools, such as the LOCKSS system, to enable both persistence and selection of electronic information.
- Hongquan Zhang , Qiang Zhao , Xing-Fang Li and X. Chris Le *
- Analyst, 2007, 132, 724-737
- DOI: 10.1039/b704256f
- Critical Review
- Example of article available with Prospect view and embedded Toolbox
Example of backward citing references.
Reference linking is available for all SPIE Journal papers published since 1999. Each Journal abstract page includes the complete list of references from that paper in HTML, with citation links as applicable. In addition, forward linking (citing articles) is now supported. Only subscribers can access this feature. Links are also provided to INSPEC and MEDLINE records. Proceedings papers have assigned DOI numbers and thus may be linked from other sources in the technical literature. Outbound reference linking from SPIE Proceedings papers to references cited within the paper is planned for the future. SPIE is a member of CrossRef.
Example of forward citing references.
CrossRef Forward Reference Linking
The SPIE Digital Library now also includes full CrossRef forward reference linking. In the past, forward linking was limited to citing articles published on the Scitation platform. With CrossRef-supported forward reference linking, new SPIE articles are deposited and stored in the CrossRef system. When a new citation is deposited from any other journal, SPIE is notified and a link to the new article is created even if the article is not published on Scitation.
- Hongquan Zhang , Qiang Zhao , Xing-Fang Li and X. Chris Le *
- Analyst, 2007, 132, 724-737
- DOI: 10.1039/b704256f
- Critical Review
- Example of article available with Prospect view and embedded Toolbox
14 Sept 2007: Royal Society of Chemistry's Project Prospect wins the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award.
"This project sees the introduction of semantics into chemical science publishing. RSC Project Prospect journals incorporate standard metadata within the full text of their articles and combine this with an elegant and intuitive on screen manifestation of the advantages of including this metadata.
"As a result, sophisticated and effective searching of the literature is greatly improved and the value gained from reading each article is significantly enhanced. RSC Project Prospect is delightfully simple to use and its benefits to authors and readers are immediately obvious."
Example of backward citing references.
Reference linking is available for all SPIE Journal papers published since 1999. Each Journal abstract page includes the complete list of references from that paper in HTML, with citation links as applicable. In addition, forward linking (citing articles) is now supported. Only subscribers can access this feature. Links are also provided to INSPEC and MEDLINE records. Proceedings papers have assigned DOI numbers and thus may be linked from other sources in the technical literature. Outbound reference linking from SPIE Proceedings papers to references cited within the paper is planned for the future. SPIE is a member of CrossRef.
Example of forward citing references.
CrossRef Forward Reference Linking
The SPIE Digital Library now also includes full CrossRef forward reference linking. In the past, forward linking was limited to citing articles published on the Scitation platform. With CrossRef-supported forward reference linking, new SPIE articles are deposited and stored in the CrossRef system. When a new citation is deposited from any other journal, SPIE is notified and a link to the new article is created even if the article is not published on Scitation.
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July 31, 2007 article about Rice E-press/Stanford U Press collaboration with comments posted
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed
Cites & Insights: Crawford at large, 7, no. 9, August 2007
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Launched in June 2007 by Nature publishing as "a place for researchers to share pre-publication research."
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July 16, 2007, Inside Higher Ed
Reports on study that compares scientific output from 9 countries in 7 fields
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July 16, 2007, Inside Higher Ed
Reports on study that compares scientific output from 9 countries in 7 fields
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Proposes 4 sources of descriptive metadata which are not mutually exclusive:
Professional
Contributed
Programmatically promoted
Intentional
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John Tawadros, July 10, 2007
Search Engine Watch
Documenting the American South:
- Economic Co-operation among Negro Americans. Report of a Study made by Atlanta University, under the Patronage of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., together with the Proceedings of the 12th Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Tuesday, May the 28th, 1907
- Morals and Manners among Negro Americans. Report of a Study Made by Atlanta University under the Patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund; with the Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Monday, May 26th, 1913.
- The Negro Church. Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903
- The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development; Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1907.
- Some Efforts of American Negroes For their Own Social Betterment. Report of an Investigation under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Third Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 25-26, 1898
- The Souls of Black Folk; Essays and Sketches
- The Upbuilding of Black Durham. The Success of the Negroes and Their Value to a Tolerant and Helpful Southern City
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This issue of First Monday includes selected papers from the conference
held in Washington, D.C. 29-30 January 2007.
What Digital Imaging Is Not
Digital imaging technology is not simply another reformatting option in the preservation tool kit. Digital imaging involves transforming the very concept of format, not simply creating a faithful reproduction of a book, document, photograph, or map on a different medium. The power of digital enhancement, the possibilities for structured indexes, and the mathematics of compression and communication together fundamentally alter the concept of preservation in the digital world.
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10 principles for trusted repositories sponsored by the Center for Research Libraries, the Digital Curation Centre (UK) and thd Digital Preservation Europe.
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The center focuses on five thrust areas that are the pillars of an exciting future:
- Cyberenvironments will give research communities the means to fully exploit the extraordinary resources available on the Internet (computing systems, data sources and stores, and tools).
- NCSA's cyber-resources ensure that computing, data, and networking resources are available to solve the most demanding science and engineering problems and that the solutions are obtained in a timely manner.
- Innovative systems research is exploring the path to petascale (and beyond) science and engineering.
- Advanced visualization provides critical insights into complex systems and brings the thrill of scientific discovery to the public.
- NCSA aims to bring cybereducation into the undergraduate and graduate classroom to prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers to effectively use the growing national cyberinfrastructure.
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Overview article by Richard K. Johnson appearing in ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, February 2007
Reviews the "sea change" in digitization of library collections fomented by Google Book Search and the Open Content Alliance. Outlines principles and policies put forward by such agencies as the American Library Association, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Francophone National Libraries, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, OCLC, the American Council of Learned Societies, and others. Concludes with a "Negotiations Checklist" of issues to consider when entering an agreement involving digitization or other business exploitation of library collections including: exclusivity; uses of the digital files; respect for the public domain and copyright; preservation; standards; and quid pro quo.
The criteria are based on monetary, scholarly and historical value; bibliographic control; frequency of use; physical condition; the existence of digital copies elsewhere; copyright status; and the appropriateness of digital reproductions for use and access. Because selection criteria for access are often different from those for preservation, the Library has created a different set of selection criteria for each mission. Each approach focuses on all types of materials in the Library’s collections including but not limited to printed monographs and journals, manuscripts and archives, prints and photographs, and audiovisuals.
Columbia University (2001) document identifies 6 sets of criteria related to:
*Collection Development
*Added Value
*Intellectual Property Rights
*Preservation
*Technical Feasibility
*Intellectual Control
Digitization has the potential to transform scholarly use of data found in print statistical publications. While presenting images of statistical tables in a digital library environment may be desirable, the full potential of such material can be realized only if the resulting digital objects are easy to search and manipulate and are accompanied by sufficient metadata to support extraction of numbers from tables and comparison of numbers across tables.
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The "Digital Toolbox" from the Colorado-based Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) links to best practices and also offers Project Management tips.
Somewhat dated but useful categorization:
Copyright
Metadata
Preservation
Scanning and Converstion
Text Mark-Up
Background Papers
* Collections (organized groups of objects)
* Objects (digital materials)
* Metadata (information related to objects)
* Projects (initiatives to create or manage collections)
Note that services have been deliberately excluded as out of scope. It is expected that if quality collections, objects, and metadata are created, it will be possible for any number of higher level services to make effective use of these entities.