Putting Content Online: A Practical Guide for Libraries

by Mark Jordan

This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries’ emerging role as publishers.

Genres: Nonfiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Marcus Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

A detailed general overview of a digital collection undertaking from start to finish, most appropriate for an institutional context (e.g., library). This is not a book about specific software or hardware platforms.

I recommend that this book be added to your local library. The suggestions for further reading and citations at the end of each chapter are particularly useful and valuable.

[Tamara · Rating 2 out of 5]

For archivists and local historians. Not for web content librarians.

Note that my rating only means that this book couldn't help me. May be of great use to others.

[Margot Note]

I "grad-school" read this, a kind of speed reading performed with a highlighter to suck out all the good bits.