The DiSCmap project: overview and first results

Duncan Birrell, Milena Dobreva, Gordon Dunsire, Jillian Griffiths, Richard Hartley, Kathleen Menzies, M. Agosti (Editor), J. Borbinha (Editor), S. Kapidakis (Editor), C. Papatheodorou (Editor), G. Tsakonas (Editor)

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Abstract

Traditionally, digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage material for use by the scholarly community has been led by supply rather than demand. The DiSCmap project commissioned by JISC in 2008, aimed to study what refocussing of digitisation efforts will suit best the users of digitised materials, especially in the context of the research and teaching in the higher education institutions in the UK. The paper presents some of its initial outcomes based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of 945 special collections nominated for digitisation by intermediary users (librarians, archivist and museum curators), as well as end users' study involving a combination of online survey, focus groups and in-depth interviews. The criteria for prioritising digitisation advanced by intermediaries and end users were analysed and cross-mapped to a range of existing digitisation frameworks. A user-driven prioritisation framework which synthesises the findings of the project is presented.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, LNCS
Place of PublicationBerlin/Heidelberg
Pages408-411
Number of pages4
Volume5714
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer Berlin / Heidelberg

Keywords

  • selection
  • appraisal
  • user-defined criteria
  • digitization
  • special collections
  • digitisation

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