What is a "good" digital collection?
Digging through the online resources about digital archives and content sharing, I ran across the National Information Standards Organization's Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. Yowza! Here in one place are most of the relevant concepts and resources for designing interoperable digital collections, and the considerations we must consider in creating a universally-accessible public broadcasting online archive.
The Framework notes that the meaning of "good" practice has changed rapidly with the evolution of practices: "In today's digital environment, the context of content is a vast international network of digital materials and services. Objects, metadata and collections should be viewed not only within the context of the projects that created them but as building blocks that others can reuse, repackage, and build services upon. Indicators of goodness correspondingly must now also emphasize factors contributing to interoperability, reusability, persistence, verification and documentation."
If you didn't have gainful employment you could work full-time just reading the material available on this subject. This document would be a great place to get grounded, then branch off to the topics and resources you need.
A final thought for the day...it has become clear that we in public broadcasting are way behind in creating a searchable, usable, accessible digital collection, as compared with our colleages in the nation's libraries, museums, and cultural, academic, and scientific institutions. We need to catch up!
The Framework notes that the meaning of "good" practice has changed rapidly with the evolution of practices: "In today's digital environment, the context of content is a vast international network of digital materials and services. Objects, metadata and collections should be viewed not only within the context of the projects that created them but as building blocks that others can reuse, repackage, and build services upon. Indicators of goodness correspondingly must now also emphasize factors contributing to interoperability, reusability, persistence, verification and documentation."
If you didn't have gainful employment you could work full-time just reading the material available on this subject. This document would be a great place to get grounded, then branch off to the topics and resources you need.
A final thought for the day...it has become clear that we in public broadcasting are way behind in creating a searchable, usable, accessible digital collection, as compared with our colleages in the nation's libraries, museums, and cultural, academic, and scientific institutions. We need to catch up!
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