Documentation
Resources for Digital
Projects
List of annotated resources for planning and implementing digital projects. Categories are Project Planning and Management, Mission Statements and Strategic Plans, Digitization, Standards, Metadata, Digital Preservation, Controlled Vocabulary and Thesauri, Organizations, and Tools and Additional Resources.
Project Information
Information for partners
contributing digital files and/or
metadata to project collections
Dublin Core Metadata Guide: Indiana
Memory's metadata standards and best
practices, February 8, 2007
Image Scanning Standards: Indiana
Memory's proposed digital imaging
standards and best practices,
February 8, 2007
WV3 Metadata Guidelines (2013)
:
Current version of metadata
guidelines for Wabash Valley Visions
& Voices collections
Information sheet for new material:
Source and description of digital
representations to be added to
collections
Metadata Guidelines (2005):
Describes required and optional
metadata fields for Wabash Valley
Visions & Voices
WV3 Digitization Standards (2013): Outlines
standards for the digitization of
photographs, text, and other
materials
Controlled Vocabulary List: Text
file of authorized subject headings
for all collections as of January
2008
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