Digital Collections: Worst Mistakes and Greatest Hits
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Presentation given on April 25, 2012 at the Albright Memorial Library in Scranton, PA, for a Save Pennsylvania's Past Digitization Basics workshop.
Digital Collections: Worst Mistakes and Greatest Hits
- 1. The University of Scranton Digital Collections: Worst Mistakes and Greatest Hits Kristen Yarmey kristen.yarmey@scranton.edu
- 2. Our collections: 8 live collections 32,548 live images 31,000 image backlog 500 GB
- 3. Our set-up:
- 4. Our team Digital Services Librarian Systems Specialist Brilliant student workers With lots of help from: University Archives and Special Collections Cataloging Library administration
- 5. My worst mistakes (and our fixes)
- 6. Not-so-timely quality control Fixes: Project tracking queue Building QC into workflow
- 7. Lack of documentation Fix: Digital collections wiki
- 8. Misplaced trust in automatic backup Fix: Frequent backup testing
- 9. Overly optimistic time tables Fixes: Project queue More realistic expectations Training more support staff
- 10. Informal (or sometimes nonexistent) project tracking Fix: Project queue
- 12. Prominent Men of Scranton (downloaded 4,370 times)
- 13. Yearbooks
- 19. Letterpress!
- 20. Timeline
- 21. Pinterest
- 22. History Pin
- 24. Thank you! Questions? Kristen Yarmey kristen.yarmey@scranton.edu