| CODE | LIA5003 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Digital Cultural Heritage | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Library Information and Archive Sciences | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The content of the study-unit covers: - Principles of digitisation of analogue and caring for digitally born cultural heritage; - Selection and prioritisation in digital cultural heritage; - Assessment, including user needs; - Preparation of originals for digitization; - Metadata capture and creation. Automated metadata generation; - Digitization and creation of data collections; - Modern trends in access. Visualisation. Multilingual access; - Submission of digital resources to delivery systems and repositories. Study-Unit Aims: - Evaluate existing digital resources and their fitness for research, teaching and leisure uses; - Apply different prioritisation principles to select material for digitisation; - Plan a simple digitisation workflow; - Estimate timelines and efforts for a digitisation project; - Work on practical aspects of digitisation; - Assess quality of digitisation work; - Analyse strategies for extending existing digital resources and evaluate efforts and costs for such tasks. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Evaluate existing digital resources and their fitness for research, teaching and leisure uses; - Apply different prioritisation principles to select material for digitisation; - Plan a simple digitisation workflow; - Estimate timelines and efforts for a digitisation project; - Work on practical aspects of digitisation; - Assess quality of digitisation work; - Analyse strategies for extending existing digital resources and evaluate efforts and costs for such tasks. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Apply different prioritisation principles to select material for digitisation; - Plan a simple digitisation workflow; - Assess the timelines and efforts for a digitisation project; - Work on practical aspects of digitisation; - Assess quality of digitisation work; Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Guidelines for the preservation of digital heritage: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001300/130071e.pdf - Risks Associated with the Use of Recordable CDs and DVDs as Reliable Storage Media in Archival Collections - Strategies and Alternatives: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001477/147782E.pdf - Towards an Open Source Repository and Preservation System: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001547/154761e.pdf - Minerva good practices in digitisation: http://www.minervaeurope.org/bestpractices/listgoodpract.htm - CIDOC CRM: conceptual reference model: http://cidoc.ks.forth.gr/ - EAD: encoded archival description: http://www.loc.gov/ead/index.html - UNIMARC manual: bibliographic format. IFLA, 2000: http:/ /www.ifla.org/Vl/3/pl996-l/sec-uniJirm - METS: metadata encoding and transmission standard: http://www.loc.gov/standards/ mets/mets-home.html |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Practicum & Seminar | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Charles Farrugia |
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