Hey, Houston SLISers,
This is Houston LISSA President Erin Dorris, reporting on the 2006 TLA conference, held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in sunny, humid Houston, Texas!
Today a series of pre-conference workshops were held, ranging in subject matter from LoT to genealogy to digitization. Myself and several other UNT students attended the fabulous pre-conference session entitled "Digitization: Planning to Preservation," spearheaded by UNT's own Cathy Nelson, Dreanna Beldon, and Mark Phillips. Most topics were discussed in the context of The Portal to Texas History, but were widely applicable to any digitization project.
Mark Phillips touched on a variety of subjects, including hardware and software for creating digital images; some considerations in selecting a digital assets management system (DAMS); metadata creation workflow; digitization project workflow; and metadata quality control.
Dreanna Beldon gave an excellent discussion on grant proposals for funding digitization initiatives. She touched on copyright restrictions and other legal issues; the selection criteria for digitization used by the Portal to Texas History; and the various scanning hardware employed in the UNT Digital Projects lab. She also provided some discussion of UNT's process for hiring students to work on digital projects (we got a fascinating handout on this topic).
Lists of resources were provided on most topics. A few of the highlights are included below:
UNTL Documentation on metadata, equipment, minimum standards, departmental procedures, tutorials, etc. - http://www.library.unt.edu/digitalprojects/documentation/documentation.htm
Legal Issues to Consider When Digitizing Collections by Jean Helig - http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/legal/legal_issues.html
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States - http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
The Funding Information Center - http://www.fic-ftw.org
The Foundation Center's Short Course on Proposal Writing - http://fdncenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html
North Carolina Echo Project's Selection Criteria for Digitization - http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/selection.htm
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