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