Stepping Away from the Silos - Strategic Collaboration in Digitisation (Paperback)

For over twenty years, digitisation has been a core element of the modern information landscape. The digital lifecycle is now well defined, and standards and good practice have been developed for most of its key stages. There remains, however, a widespread lack of coordination of digitisation initiatives, both within and across different sectors, and there are disparate approaches to selection criteria. The result is 'silos' of digitised content. Stepping away from the Silos examines the strategic context in the UK since the 1990s and its effect on collaboration and coordination of exemplar digitisation initiatives in higher education and related sectors. It identifies the principal criteria for content selection that are common to the international literature in this field. The outputs of the exemplar projects are examined in relation to these criteria. A range of common practices and patterns in content selection appears to have developed over time, forming a de facto strategy from which several areas of critical mass have emerged. The book discusses the potential to improve strategic collaboration and coordinated selection by building on such a platform, and considers planning options in the context of work on national digitisation strategies in the UK and internationally.

General

Imprint:	Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Margaret Coutts
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-08-100278-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Automation of library & information processes Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Storage, maintenance & preservation of collections Promotions
LSN:	0-08-100278-5
Barcode:	9780081002780

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