Dates: July 7 - August 1, 2014
Credits: 1.5 CEUs
Price: $175
This course
is primarily aimed at librarians who are new to managing special image
collections and who wish to learn more about beginning a digitization program.
Through readings, individual exercises, and class discussions, students will
develop an understanding of the following key components of digitization
project planning: evaluation and preparation of resources, building sustainable
workflows and storage environments, and usability assessment. In the first part
of the course, students will become familiar with current research into the
behaviours and attitudes of image-seekers, and they will develop a broad
understanding of how different metadata standards for libraries, archives and museums
record and present information to the end user. In the following weeks, we will
discuss basic steps for creating and preserving digital images, such as
choosing an appropriate scanning resolution, file naming, and devising
scale-appropriate storage methods. Students will evaluate various strategy and
planning documents in order to develop goals for their projects, and will be
given examples of workflows that can be customized for their own use. The focus
will be on providing access to collections that are being digitized from
analogue materials, but will also have applications to born-digital
collections.
