Life of a Digitization Project A-Z

Selection
  • Nomination Form
  • Consultation Meeting
  • Rights Assessment
  • Access Decision (repository choice, IA, Flickr, etc..)
  • Financial plan
  • Approval by Directorate
Beginning the Project
  • Scheduling - timeline
  • Picklist
Metadata Workflow
Choose digitization vendor
Preservation prep work
Ship to vendor
Reformatting (Scanning)

Return to Preservation Services or Library Sponsor

File Disposition Workflow
Quality Control
Ingest Plan
  • Script
  • Blurb material regarding collection
Communicating Project Completion - Marketing

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Sample Workflows(Communication Forum & Whirlwind)

File disposition

File naming schemes

End Processing workflow (see notes) - projects that will be removed from shelves after added to DOME or DSpace (example, Communication Forum, Sloan Working Papers, CEEPR).

Selection

Budget

Preservation Services Digital Projects Procedures

Scanning/OCR/QC

Metadata

Ingest/Crosswalk

Assessment