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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.
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> 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