Digitising History
A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents
SEAN TOWNSEND, CRESSIDA CHAPPELL AND OSCAR STRUIJVÉ
Executive Summary
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Background1.2 Aims and objectives
1.3 Outline
Chapter 2: Managing Digital Resource Creation Projects
2.1 Introduction2.2 The context of digital resource creation
2.3 Planning digital resource creation
2.4 Creating breathing space: specifications and priorities
2.5 The link between resource creation and research
2.6 Documenting the project
2.7 Managing real world projects: tough decisions
2.8 Summary
Chapter 3: From Source to Database
3.1 Introduction3.2 Defining aims and objectives of the project
3.3 Links between source and database
3.4 Sketching the database structure
3.5 Transcription and data entry
Chapter 4: Further Data and Preservation Issues
4.1 Introduction4.2 Database integrity and practice
4.3 Software, formats and preservation standards
Chapter 5: Documenting a Data Creation Project
5.1 Why is good documentation important?5.2 Guidelines for documenting a data creation project
Chapter 6: Archiving and Preserving Data
6.1 What is the History Data Service?6.2 What are the benefits of depositing data with the HDS?
6.3 Step-by-step guide to depositing data with the HDS
6.4 Further information
Chapter 7: Glossary and Bibliography
7.1 Glossary7.2 Bibliography
© Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell, Oscar Struijvé 1999
The right of Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijvé to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All material supplied via the Arts and Humanities Data Service is protected by copyright, and duplication or sale of all or any part of it is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your personal research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form. Permission for any other use must be obtained from the Arts and Humanities Data Service.Electronic or print copies may not be offered, whether for sale or otherwise, to any third party.