Library Services to Support Funding Applications and Research Projects: During - Digitisation Activities

As part of your project you may be creating a digital / digitised collection.

The Library’s Digitisation Projects Guide outlines the various options available, considering the entire workflow from planning, hosting, copyright, digital imaging, metadata, software, web publishing tools etc.

Working with a project team, services include:

Provision of a metadata template form that is customised to the needs of a specific project; and assistance with completion of this

Development of a data model for describing digital research objects

Recommendation of standards to ensure that project metadata can be shared, indexed, and reused over time

Identification of controlled vocabularies, content standards, and syntax conventions to help standardise object descriptions for better search and discovery

Services include:

The provision of guidelines and templates, for example:

• Sample workflow (libguides.ucd.ie/digitisation/workflows)

• Copyright scenarios (libguides.ucd.ie/digitisation/copyright)

• Scanning guidelines (libguides.ucd.ie/digitisation/digitisation)

• Generic metadata templates (libguides.ucd.ie/digitisation/organising)

• Controlled lists of terms to ensure consistency in descriptions (libguides.ucd.ie/digitisation/organising)