Project Resources

Planning

• Creating your Digital Collection (MS Word document)
• Creating an Exhibit (MS Word document)

Image Selection

• Community Museum Project Selection Criteria
• Northeast Documentation Center
  Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
  http://www.nedcc.org/digital/iv.htm
• Digital Best Practices. Olympia, WA: Washington State Library.
  See "SELECTING & PREPARING COLLECTIONS TO DIGITIZE" under Collections
  http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/best.htm
• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials: Selecting Materials: An Iterative Process
  http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/III/
• National Information Standards Organization: A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
  http://www.niso.org/framework/forumframework.html
• Joint Research Libraries Group and National Preservation Office
  Guidance for selecting materials for digitisation
  http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html
• Towards a Learning Nation: The Digital Contribution. Recommendations proposed by the Federal Task Force on Digitization. Final Report.
  (December 31, 1997). Part B Issue 2: Selecting materials for digitization.
  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/3/r3-407-e.html

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Permissions Documents

Note: All items in this section are formatted as Word Documents.

• Virtual Museum Release: Photographic subject release form. Used when a person's likeness is captured via photography, video and/or audio recording, or other representation of them is used in the Community Museum Project.
• Virtual Museum Documenter Agreement: A kind of work-for-hire agreement in which the signer acknowledges that the product of their work for the Community Museum Project (as a photographer, videographer, oral history taker, etc) belong to the Project and they as signer retain no copyright of that work.
• Virtual Museum General Agreement: A form which grants the Community Museum Project the rights to reproduce and publish via the web digitized representations of copyrighted items such as photographs, writings, and other intellectual property.
• Virtual Museum Tribal Agreement: A form specifically developed for tribes as sovereign nations which grants the Community Museum project the rights to reproduce and publish via the web digitized representations of copyrighted materials, such as photographs, likenesses of artifacts, writings, recorded songs, and other intellectual and tribal property. Specific items should be listed on the form by the signer.

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Scanning

• Community Museum Project Basic Scanner Settings
• "Scanning Basics 101 - A few scanning tips" by Wayne Fulton. This site offers scanning tips and explains the basics of scanning photographs and documents. http://www.scantips.com/
• Introduction to Scanning and Digital Imaging
  Richard J. Urban, Colorado Digitization Program
  Workshop Presentation - (1.7MB PDF)
  http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/scanning/documents/wrk_scanning_ppt.pdf
• Community Museum Project Specifications for Digitization (Final Version)

Metadata Guidelines

• University of Washington Metadata Implementation Group' website - http://www.lib.washington.edu/msd/mig/advice/default.html
• Data Dictionaries - Metadata Schemas
  Note: All items in this section are formatted as Word Documents.
  
  • Clallam County Historical Society (now known as the North Olympic History Center)
  • CMP Individuals
  • Forks Timber Museum
  • Makah Cultural and Research Center
  • Museum of History and Industry
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • North Olympic Library System
  • National Park Service
  • People without Borders

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Non-Profit Photograph Sales Information:

• City of Austin "Austin History Center" Custom Photo Reproduction Price List. - http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/ahc/pricelist.htm
• Crossing Organizational Boundaries. “Design and Fulfillment Workshop”. https://content.lib.washington.edu/imls/cob-archive/workshop3.html (accessed May 24, 2005).
• San Francisco Public Library. Photo Reproduction Price List. http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/pricelist.htm (accessed May 20, 2005).
• State Historical Society of Iowa. Photograph Price List. http://www.iowahistory.org/library/patron_services/photo_prices.html (accessed May 20, 2005).
• Museum of History and Industry. Rights and Permissions. http://www.mohai.org/research/photo-archive-search No price list on website. Contact MOHAI for specific prices. (accessed May 10, 2005).
• University of Washington Libraries. “Special Collections”. http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/ (accessed May 10, 2005).
• Washington State History Museum. Photo Duplication Services and Prices. http://www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs/research/photo_charges.htm (accessed May 24, 2005).

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