Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 330.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:41:29 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE RELEASED
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
November 18, 2002
NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE
FIRST EDITION RELEASED
<http://www.ninch.org/guide.html>
Comments Invited
http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/comments.html
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is pleased to
announce the release of the First Edition of the NINCH Guide to Good
Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage
Materials.
Already described as a resource that "will become a touchstone for new
practitioners for years to come," the NINCH Guide is designed for those in
all sectors of the cultural community who are digitizing and networking
cultural resources.
The NINCH Guide is unique in several ways. It is community-based (created
by practitioners working in different disciplines and media in museums,
libraries, archives, the arts and academic departments); it is
principles-based (driven by core principles in networking cultural
resources); and it is empirical (partly derived from interviews at
distinguished digitization programs in the U.S. and abroad, conducted by
Glasgow University's Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute).
The Guide creates a high-level pathway through the issues and decisions to
be made in networking heritage materials. Thirteen sections follow the
life-cycle of digital projects: from Project Planning, Selection of
Materials and Copyright Issues, through the technical questions of
digitizing all formats, to the issues of Sustainability, User Assessment,
Digital Asset Management and Preservation. The Guide also includes a
bibliography, an edited set of interview reports, and the extensive
interview instrument.
We strongly encourage readers of the Guide to send us comments and
suggestions (using the form provided on our web site) in order to make it a
living document that is responsive to the community it serves. Some
suggestions will be incorporated into this edition, others will be used in
the production of a Second Edition.
Thanks are due to Lorna Hughes, her staff and students at the Humanities
Computing Group of New York University, for their dedication and high
standards in mounting pre-publication versions of the text leading up to
this final version and for hosting the Guide. Thanks also to Meg Bellinger,
Vice President, OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources, for services that
will mirror the Guide on OCLC web sites in the U.S. and abroad.
The NINCH Working Group on Best Practices produced the Guide, in
association with the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
Institute (HATII) of the University of Glasgow.
The Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust made the Guide possible
through a generous grant, for which the NINCH Board of Directors expresses
its thanks.
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is a diverse
nonprofit coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations
created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution
of the digital environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Project Planning
3. Selecting Materials: An Iterative Process
4. Rights Management
5. Digtization & Encoding of Text
6. Capture and Management of Images
7. Audio/Video Capture and Management
8. Quality Control and Assurance
9. Working With Others
10. Distribution
11. Sustainability: Models for Long-Term Funding
12. Assessment of Projects by User Evaluation
13. Digital Asset Management
14. Preservation
Appendix A: Equipment
Appendix B: Metadata
Appendix C: Digital Data Capture: Sampling
References
Bibliography
Interview Reports and
Interview Instrument
NINCH Working Group on Best Practices
Chair: David L. Green
Kathe Albrecht
Morgan Cundiff
LeeEllen Friedland*
Peter Hirtle
Lorna Hughes
Katherine Jones
Mark Kornbluh
Joan Lippincott
Michael Neuman
Richard Rinehart
Thornton Staples
Jennifer Trant**
* through June 2001
** through May 1999
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