Coutts, Margaret
Stepping Away From the Silos : Strategis Collaboration in Digitisation - 1st Ed. - Cambridge Chandos Publishing 2016 - xiv,197p
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For over twenty years, digitisation has been a core element of the modern information landscape. The digital lifecycle is now well defined, and standards and good practice have been developed for most of its key stages. There remains, however, a widespread lack of coordination of digitisation initiatives, both within and across different sectors, and there are disparate approaches to selection criteria. The result is ‘silos’ of digitised content. Stepping away from the Silos examines the strategic context in the UK since the 1990s and its effect on collaboration and coordination of exemplar digitisation initiatives in higher education and related sectors. It identifies the principal criteria for content selection that are common to the international literature in this field. The outputs of the exemplar projects are examined about these criteria. A range of common practices and patterns in content selection appears to have developed over time, forming a de facto strategy from which several areas of critical mass have emerged. The book discusses the potential to improve strategic collaboration and coordinated selection by building on such a platform and considering planning options in working on national digitisation strategies in the UK and internationally.
9780081002780
Library Science--Digital libraries--Collection development--Digitization--Strategic planning
025.84 / COU-S
Stepping Away From the Silos : Strategis Collaboration in Digitisation - 1st Ed. - Cambridge Chandos Publishing 2016 - xiv,197p
Include Index
For over twenty years, digitisation has been a core element of the modern information landscape. The digital lifecycle is now well defined, and standards and good practice have been developed for most of its key stages. There remains, however, a widespread lack of coordination of digitisation initiatives, both within and across different sectors, and there are disparate approaches to selection criteria. The result is ‘silos’ of digitised content. Stepping away from the Silos examines the strategic context in the UK since the 1990s and its effect on collaboration and coordination of exemplar digitisation initiatives in higher education and related sectors. It identifies the principal criteria for content selection that are common to the international literature in this field. The outputs of the exemplar projects are examined about these criteria. A range of common practices and patterns in content selection appears to have developed over time, forming a de facto strategy from which several areas of critical mass have emerged. The book discusses the potential to improve strategic collaboration and coordinated selection by building on such a platform and considering planning options in working on national digitisation strategies in the UK and internationally.
9780081002780
Library Science--Digital libraries--Collection development--Digitization--Strategic planning
025.84 / COU-S