Contents:
- Executive summary
- List of contents
- Document history
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The foundations
- 3. Project management
- 4. Content capture
- 5. Metadata generation
- 6. Procurement
- 7. IPR
- 8. Service delivery
- A. Case studies in detail.
This report provides advice, based on the experiences of completed digitisation projects, two of which involved audiovisual collections. Using “factor profiles”, it highlights areas which are likely to require significant resources to complete, and suggests approaches which will minimise the risk of a project running into difficulties. The report contains information on potential costs (High, Medium and Low), good practice, key things to consider and common pitfalls at all stages of a digitisation project. It does not contain a formula into which you can input details of a collection and output the cost of the project.
This document is useful as a checklist for management level staff at the planning stage of a digitization project. Not meant to provide detailed project management guidance or produce actual ‘costs’, it does address all the important issues and clearly describes potential cost implications of not managing certain steps properly.