Building a Digital Archive: Framework for an Organizational Digitization Strategy – capturing and describing
Code: HDC001
Presenter: David Larsen
Venue: Schlesinger Theatre
Date: Tuesday April 2, 2013
Duration: 1 hour
Style: Lecture
Participants: 60
Prerequisite: None
Cost: Nil if registered on any course
In this brief session David Larsen, Managing Director of Africa Media Online, will give an introduction to the Heritage Digital Campus as a whole.
What content will be covered?
David will give an introduction to the framework which underlies the whole of the Heritage Digital Campus, the 10 processes for building a digital archive. He will do this giving particular emphasis on the Capturing and Describing stages that are the subject matter of Week 1 of the Heritage Digital Campus.
What will I gain?
The session gives a bird’s eye view of where we are headed in the next two weeks and your first look at a framework that will be explored further in later sessions and which will become a foundation upon which you can build all your understanding of running a digitisation project and building a digital archive.