Controlled Vocabularies and other sources of information
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Digital imaging and QC guide
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Two types of metadata are required for Gathering the Jewels – Dublin Core descriptive metadata and Technical Metadata.
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Digitisation – The life-cycle approach\r\n\r\nFollowing the lead of the nof-digitise technical standards and guidelines, Gathering the Jewels advocates a life-cycle approach to digitisation. The stages of the life-cycle may include Creation – Development – Management – Access – Use/Re-use – Preservation. This emphasises the importance of seeing the project as a whole, and how decisions taken at given stages have implications for the rest of the process. This document concentrates on the creation and management stages but the whole life-cycle is considered in decisions relating to these two stages.\r\n (more…)