Keep calm and carry on
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Keep Calm and Carry On : managing a digitisation project
Francine Millard, Digitisation Manager for the Medical History of British India Project, National Library of Scotland
Medical History of British India Project
2005 - 44 volumes2007 – 126 further
volumes2008 -135 Veterinary
volumes2009- 46 Lunatic
Asylum volumes2011 – Vaccination
reports
The P word
NLS outsourced microfilming and digitisationFull competitive tendering Preservation standards required
Logistics
Organise tracking for each book/batchBatch workflows useful
Doing the work
Timings – 6 weeks per 4,000 pagesTime allowed for metadata and preparation of material and paperwork
Care of library material
Champion of metadata!Digital Object Database – DODGranularityThesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM) and Arts and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
Quality assurance
Checking that standards are metIdentifying re-workMatch image to unique DOD number
Optical Character Recognition
Pdf and htm file produced for each tif imageText-backed pdfs fully searchableUse ftp to send and receive files
Research and promotion
Research and promotion
Supervision of studentsDiscover NLS articleText for web feature
A unique job
Deadlines deadline and more deadlines!Variety of tasksExpertise from colleagues
A world of sex, drugs and disease
Dusty dull records on the outsideJuicy tales and anecdotes on the inside
Medical personnel
The Bowel Gang
Bones and boils
19th Century lunatic asylums
Rules and rum barrels
Disease and colonial medicine
Linkshttp://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/http://www.dpconline.org/http://www.publiccontractsscotland.
gov.uk/