Others in this thread have all made useful comments, but I think it would pay to take a step back first and ask yourself some questions about your situation:
(*) what's your volume of material? Do you have a single book? a shelf of contents? a room of content? a multi-site organisation full of content?
(*) what are your resources? Do you have techies? Do you have cataloguers? Do you have volunteers? Do you have machine-readable catalog records for the books? Is there good authority control for the people in the archive? Do you have existing finding aids? Do you have a book scanner?
(*) Are you working as part of an enduring institution with a demonstrated commitment to archives?
(*) Have you looked around for possible consortia to join?
(*) Have you looked around to see who else has already digitised closely-related materials?
(*) Which languages are the archives in?
(*) Do you have a collections policy?
...
The more detailed the answers, the better we'll be able to give you advice rather than just push our prejudices at you...
cheers
stuart
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From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of P.G. <booksbypage_at_GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2014 9:55 a.m.
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Digitization Project from Scratch
Hello,
Anyone has experience in digitizing archival materials? I need your
recommendations/suggestions on how we can start with our digitization. We
need to build a searchable website so the public can access our materials
of images, publications and media files.
What platform did you use? Open-source or fee-base? What is your experience
using it?
Basically, we started using Sharepoint but at this point, I believe it is
only good for sharing of internal documents. We are on a limited budget so
we may need to host it on our own server as well.
Any feedback or persons to contact for more info is highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Chris
Received on Tue Oct 14 2014 - 20:01:14 EDT