Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives at Small to Medium Size Institutions Rachel Frick & Andrew Rouner

Digital library startup now more feasible Smaller institutions already entering into digital library development

Changes in standards for encoding texts SGML Standardized Generalized Markup Language

Changes in standards for encoding texts SGML Standardized Generalized Markup Language HTML Hypertext Markup Language

Changes in standards for encoding texts SGML Standardized Generalized Markup Language HTML Hypertext Markup Language XML eXtensible Markup Language

Basic needs for digital library software: delivery search management archiving

what needs does the DL software address and to what extent does it address them? consider your data in DL software selection balance that against future growth of your DL be aware software can hold data hostage consider software’s user community and future development prospects be realistic about programming costs for features you want in open source, and weigh this against the costs of commercial software (be aware that costs for commercial software are almost never flat rates)

UR workflow: XML editors

there are open source XML editors available, but may not be ready others like XML Spy are more expensive oXygen can process an XML file through a stylesheet, and output to a browser and especially of concern for digital library development—it has TEI support built-in

UR workflow: managing files

UR workflow: Subversion

UR workflow: managing files

Metadata, and Document and Digital Object Modeling