Our vision is to be the

• Centre of excellence in digital curation and preservation in the UK
• Authoritative source of advocacy and expert advice and guidance to the community
• Key facilitator of an informed research community with established collaborative networks of digital curators
• Service provider of a wide range of resources, software, tools and support services

upstream services. policy is: see us first

• Multimedia/Bibliographic Databases (Sitesearch)
• Electronic Facsimile Text (Pageturner/EFacs)
• Encoded E-Text (TEI)
• EFacs v. Encoded E–Text

1. How does the Brown University Library define a digital project?
2. What kind of materials go into digital projects?
3. Why should I consider a digital project?
4. Who works on digital projects -- Who has what responsibility
5. What about standards?
6. What kinds of services can the library provide?
   • Digitization of most formats, including audio, video, print, image and slides.
   • Provision of enhanced access to your objects through the creation of rich metadata records.
   • Creation of class logins and folders in Luna Insight (image collections).
   • Production (in conjunction with CIS) of audio reserve materials using Brown EARS.
   • Encoding of textual objects using the Text Encoding Intiative.
   • Repository services for faculty and departmental digital objects.
   • Consultative services related to any of the above.
7. How is all this work supported
8. I have a project in mind, where do I begin?

What is a signature collection?

Links in top bar:
(a) featured collections (arabic & persian mss, campaign archives);
(b) browse (titles, subjects, format, repositories);
(c) search and find (search, browse)
(d) thematic collections (ophthalmology, newspaper, children's book)
(e) project and collaborations (metadata exchange using OAI, sheet music consortium)
(f) feedback

15 templates for content providers

1. Production of digital materials for use in scholarship and teaching at Brown.
2. Digitization of "signature collections" from Brown's world renowned Special Collections.
3. Consultative services for Library and academic units undertaking digital projects.

Services

• Project Planning for help with grant-writing, financial planning, copyright research, technical planning and so on
• Digital Media and Image Center (DMIC) for digitization of images, audio and video
• Electronic Text Development Center (ETDC) for digitization and encoding of text
• Metadata Services for help with creation and mapping of metadata
• Interface Design & Usability Services for wireframing, prototyping, design and usability assessment

Browse:

• collection name,
• medium,
• topic,
• institution