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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
November 18, 2002
NINCH GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE
FIRST EDITION RELEASED
<http://www.ninch.org/guide.html>
Comments Invited
http://www.ninch.org/programs/practice/comments.html
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is pleased
to announce the release of the First Edition of the NINCH Guide to
Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of
Cultural Heritage Materials.
Already described as a resource that "will become a touchstone for
new practitioners for years to come," the NINCH Guide is designed for
those in all sectors of the cultural community who are digitizing and
networking cultural resources.
The NINCH Guide is unique in several ways. It is community-based
(created by practitioners working in different disciplines and media
in museums, libraries, archives, the arts and academic departments);
it is principles-based (driven by core principles in networking
cultural resources); and it is empirical (partly derived from
interviews at distinguished digitization programs in the U.S. and
abroad, conducted by Glasgow University's Humanities Advanced
Technology and Information Institute).
The Guide creates a high-level pathway through the issues and
decisions to be made in networking heritage materials. Thirteen
sections follow the life-cycle of digital projects: from Project
Planning, Selection of Materials and Copyright Issues, through the
technical questions of digitizing all formats, to the issues of
Sustainability, User Assessment, Digital Asset Management and
Preservation. The Guide also includes a bibliography, an edited set
of interview reports, and the extensive interview instrument.
We strongly encourage readers of the Guide to send us comments and
suggestions (using the form provided on our web site) in order to
make it a living document that is responsive to the community it
serves. Some suggestions will be incorporated into this edition,
others will be used in the production of a Second Edition.
Thanks are due to Lorna Hughes, her staff and students at the
Humanities Computing Group of New York University, for their
dedication and high standards in mounting pre-publication versions of
the text leading up to this final version and for hosting the Guide.
Thanks also to Meg Bellinger, Vice President, OCLC Digital &
Preservation Resources, for services that will mirror the Guide on
OCLC web sites in the U.S. and abroad.
The NINCH Working Group on Best Practices produced the Guide, in
association with the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
Institute (HATII) of the University of Glasgow.
The Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust made the Guide
possible through a generous grant, for which the NINCH Board of
Directors expresses its thanks.
The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage is a
diverse nonprofit coalition of arts, humanities and social science
organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural
community in the evolution of the digital environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Project Planning
3. Selecting Materials: An Iterative Process
4. Rights Management
5. Digtization & Encoding of Text
6. Capture and Management of Images
7. Audio/Video Capture and Management
8. Quality Control and Assurance
9. Working With Others
10. Distribution
11. Sustainability: Models for Long-Term Funding
12. Assessment of Projects by User Evaluation
13. Digital Asset Management
14. Preservation
Appendix A: Equipment
Appendix B: Metadata
Appendix C: Digital Data Capture: Sampling
References
Bibliography
Interview Reports and
Interview Instrument
NINCH Working Group on Best Practices
Chair: David L. Green
Kathe Albrecht
Morgan Cundiff
LeeEllen Friedland*
Peter Hirtle
Lorna Hughes
Katherine Jones
Mark Kornbluh
Joan Lippincott
Michael Neuman
Richard Rinehart
Thornton Staples
Jennifer Trant**
* through June 2001
** through May 1999
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