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Digitizing criminals: web delivery of a century on the cheap

Digitizing criminals: web delivery of a century on the cheap Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the process, challenges and lessons learned from carrying out a small digital project to create a web resource of unique historic materials related to crime in New York City. All aspects of digital project management are discussed, including selection, infrastructure, budgeting, workflow and delivery. Design/methodology/approach – Experiences from project administration, including management of a combination in‐house and outsourced digitization and metadata are discussed. Formation and management of the resulting web resource is explained, which is the product of a creative amalgamation of commercial and open source software. Challenges encountered are presented with suggestions for practical solutions and considerations for future projects. Findings – This grant‐funded pilot project presented foreseen and unforeseen problems. Lessons learned and solutions suggesting best approaches for a small‐scale digitization project are presented here. Practical implications – In this paper best practices and suggestions for managing a small digital project are presented, including financial, staffing and technical considerations. Originality/value – Unlike many other discussions that focus on management of large institutional projects, this study presents an incremental approach for small‐scale digitization projects. Presented here are practical uses of available applications for establishing project infrastructure to sustain and continue growth of digital content for small institutions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png OCLC Systems & Services Emerald Publishing

Digitizing criminals: web delivery of a century on the cheap

Ellen Belcher; Ellen Sexton
OCLC Systems & Services , Volume 24 (2): 17 – May 30, 2008
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Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the process, challenges and lessons learned from carrying out a small digital project to create a web resource of unique historic materials related to crime in New York City. All aspects of digital project management are discussed, including selection, infrastructure, budgeting, workflow and delivery. Design/methodology/approach – Experiences from project administration, including management of a combination in‐house and outsourced digitization and metadata are discussed. Formation and management of the resulting web resource is explained, which is the product of a creative amalgamation of commercial and open source software. Challenges encountered are presented with suggestions for practical solutions and considerations for future projects. Findings – This grant‐funded pilot project presented foreseen and unforeseen problems. Lessons learned and solutions suggesting best approaches for a small‐scale digitization project are presented here. Practical implications – In this paper best practices and suggestions for managing a small digital project are presented, including financial, staffing and technical considerations. Originality/value – Unlike many other discussions that focus on management of large institutional projects, this study presents an incremental approach for small‐scale digitization projects. Presented here are practical uses of available applications for establishing project infrastructure to sustain and continue growth of digital content for small institutions.

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OCLC Systems & Services – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 30, 2008

Keywords: Digital libraries; Criminal justice; Photographs; Trials; Academic libraries; Project management

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