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OK I am now obsessed with the idea of a post-apocalyptic consortia of 100,000 libraries, each with one book. Cary On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Stuart Yeates <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Others in this thread have all made useful comments, but I think it would pay to take a step back first and ask yourself some questions about your situation: > > (*) what's your volume of material? Do you have a single book? a shelf of contents? a room of content? a multi-site organisation full of content? > (*) what are your resources? Do you have techies? Do you have cataloguers? Do you have volunteers? Do you have machine-readable catalog records for the books? Is there good authority control for the people in the archive? Do you have existing finding aids? Do you have a book scanner? > (*) Are you working as part of an enduring institution with a demonstrated commitment to archives? > (*) Have you looked around for possible consortia to join? > (*) Have you looked around to see who else has already digitised closely-related materials? > (*) Which languages are the archives in? > (*) Do you have a collections policy? > ... > > The more detailed the answers, the better we'll be able to give you advice rather than just push our prejudices at you... > > cheers > stuart > > > -- > I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 > > ________________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of P.G. <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2014 9:55 a.m. > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Digitization Project from Scratch > > Hello, > > Anyone has experience in digitizing archival materials? I need your > recommendations/suggestions on how we can start with our digitization. We > need to build a searchable website so the public can access our materials > of images, publications and media files. > > What platform did you use? Open-source or fee-base? What is your experience > using it? > > Basically, we started using Sharepoint but at this point, I believe it is > only good for sharing of internal documents. We are on a limited budget so > we may need to host it on our own server as well. > > Any feedback or persons to contact for more info is highly appreciated. > Thanks. > > Chris