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May 12, 2002

Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections

First Monday: Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. Managers and implementers of digital collections are now expected to take much the same approach to digital collection development. This means that planners of digitization projects today must consider issues of reusability, persistence, interoperability, verification, and documentation. From [Tomalak's Realm]

Digital archives seem to be subject entropy at a much great rate than physical objects (cf Our Useless Digital Archives), so this kind of stewardship is a much needed step.