Selection Criteria for Digital Collections Mark Phillips UNT Libraries March 26, 2013 1
Selection criteria 2
Where to begin... 3
Digital Library Collection Development 4
The Portal to Texas History 5
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The UNT Digital Library 7
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History 9
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In many ways it parallels traditional collection development 11
Which usually means the hard parts are still hard 12
The vague parts are still pretty vague 13
But... 14
Digital collections have additional properties Which create new opportunities 15
Collection Aggregation 16
Lorenzo de Zavala Online: Empresario, Statesman and Texas Revolutionary 17
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Create collections from multiple institutions around a theme. 21
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16 partners 23
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11 partners 25
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3 partners 27
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4 partners 29
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3 partners 31
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13 partners 33
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24 partners 35
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15 partners 37
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21 partners 39
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12 partners 41
Format based collections 42
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40 partners 44
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16 partners 46
Connecting collections 47
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Two institutions (Austin College and Rice University) 49
Two physical collection 50
One combined digital collection 51
So how does this tie back to selection criteria 52
Collaborative digital projects tend to succeed when there is a common goal to rally behind 53
Focusing a project and limiting the scope 54
Can open up the conversations 55
Especially important in projects that can quickly spiral to gargantuan size, scale and complexity 56
Questions? 57
mark.phillips@unt.edu http://digital.library.unt.edu/ http://texashistory.unt.edu/ 58