Putting Content Online
A Practical Guide for Libraries

Mark Jordan (Author)

9781843341765, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 30 September 2006

368 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.56 kg

"…a timely publication specifically aimed at libraries and librarians involved in digitising projects or planning such initiatives." --Online Information Review

"...provides advice for solving realistic problems." --Online Information Review

"…covers a comprehensive range of topics related to digitalisation of products." --Online Information Review

This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries’ emerging role as publishers.

Introduction
Preliminary tasks
Copyright and digital library collections
Metadata for digital collections
File formats
Search and display
Content management systems
Project management
Project operations
Developing workflows
Preservation strategies
A case study.

Subject Areas: Databases & the Web [UNN], Internet: general works [UBW], Library & information sciences [GL]