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Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives at Small to Medium Size Institutions

Learn about the changes in encoding standards, basic software needs, and workflow management for building digital libraries at smaller institutions. Consider software selection, costs, and future development prospects for successful implementation.

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Strategies for Building Successful Digital Initiatives at Small to Medium Size Institutions

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

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

  3. Changes in standards for encoding texts • SGML • Standardized Generalized Markup Language

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

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

  6. Basic needs for digital library software: • delivery • search • management • archiving

  7. 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)

  8. www.soros.org/openaccess/software/

  9. UR workflow: XML editors

  10. 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

  11. UR workflow: managing files

  12. UR workflow: Subversion

  13. UR workflow: managing files

  14. Metadata, and Document and Digital Object Modeling

  15. Metadata, and Document and Digital Object Modeling

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