000			01797nam a22001697a 4500
999			_c26636 _d26636
020			_a9780081002780
082			_a025.84 _bCOU-S
100			_aCoutts, Margaret
245			_aStepping Away From the Silos _b: Strategis Collaboration in Digitisation
250			_a1st Ed.
260			_aCambridge _bChandos Publishing _c2016
300			_axiv,197p
504			_aInclude Index
520			_aFor 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.
650			_aLibrary Science _vDigital libraries--Collection development _vDigitization _vStrategic planning
942			_2ddc _cBK