New Self-Guided Curriculum for Digitization

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URL - the landing page for the learning resource: 
https://dp.la/news/new-self-guided-curriculum-for-digitization/
Description - a brief synopsis, abstract or summary of what the learning resource is about: 

Through the Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP), DPLA has been working with existing DPLA Service Hubs to provide digital skills training for public librarians and connect them sustainably with state and regional resources for digitizing, describing, and exhibiting their cultural heritage content.

During the project, DPLA collaborated with trainers at Digital Commonwealth, Digital Library of Georgia, Minnesota Digital Library, Montana Memory Project, and Mountain West Digital Library to write and iterate a workshop curriculum based on documented best practices. Through the project workshops, we used this curriculum to introduce 150 public librarians to the digitization process.

Now at the end of the project, we’ve made this curriculum available in a self-guided version intended for digitization beginners from a variety of cultural heritage institutions. Each module includes a video presentation, slides with notes in Powerpoint, and slides in PDF. Please feel free to share, reuse, and adapt these materials.  Topics (with separate URLs for each) include:
Planning for Digitization
Selecting Content for a Digitization Project
Understanding Copyright
Using Metadata to Describe Digital Content
Digital Reformatting and File Management
Promoting Use of Your Digital Content
 

Authoring Person(s) Name: 
Franky Abbott
Jennifer Birnel
Anna Fahey-Flynn
Greer Martin
Sheila A. McAlister
Sandra McIntyre
Anna Neatrour
Carla Urban
Authoring Organization(s) Name: 
Digital Public Library of America
License - link to legal statement specifying the copyright status of the learning resource: 
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International - CC BY-NC 4.0
Access Cost: 
No fee
Primary language(s) in which the learning resource was originally published or made available: 
English
More info about
Keywords - short phrases describing what the learning resource is about: 
Copyright of data
Data archiving
Data curation
Digitization of data
Programmatic digital preservation
Published / Broadcast: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Publisher - organization credited with publishing or broadcasting the learning resource: 
Digital Public Library of America
Media Type - designation of the form in which the content of the learning resource is represented, e.g., moving image: 
Collection - a group or set of items that comprise a single learning resource, e.g., a PDF version of a slide presentation, an audio file of the presentation and a textual representation of the oral transcription of the presentation.
Contributor Organization(s): 
Name: 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Type: 
Funding and sponsorship
Name: 
Digital Commonwealth
Type: 
Collaborator
Name: 
Digital Library of Georgia
Type: 
Collaborator
Name: 
Minnesota Digital Library
Type: 
Collaborator
Name: 
Montana Memory Project
Type: 
Collaborator
Name: 
Mountain West Digital Library
Type: 
Collaborator
Contact Person(s): 
Franky Abbott
Contact Organization(s): 
Digital Public Library of America
Educational Info
Purpose - primary educational reason for which the learning resource was created: 
Instruction - detailed information about aspects or processes related to data management or data skills.
Learning Resource Type - category of the learning resource from the point of view of a professional educator: 
Educator Curriculum Guide - document that defines what concepts should be taught and/or how a concept should be taught effectively.
Target Audience - intended audience for which the learning resource was created: 
Educator
Librarian
Repository manager
Intended time to complete - approximate amount of time the average student will take to complete the learning resource: 
More than 1 hour (but less than 1 day)