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By Paul Biba

This is from their press release, and thanks to Gary Price for the heads up.

486272965_72c1728272_m.jpgMass digitisation has become one of the most prominent issues in the library world over the last 5 years, with a number of experienced libraries in Europe already scanning millions of pages each year. To help establish some standardisation over the course of the project, the British Library’s team will lead work on a set of ‘Decision Support Tools’ in an effort to focus on practical implementation support, providing guidance on digitisation workflow, the capturing of material and the organisation of metadata based on the real world experiences of project partners. These measures, announced at the first IMPACT conference in April will help ensure new material can be digitised successfully and feed into existing workflows.

Aly Conteh, e Strategy & Information Systems, Programme Manager, British Library said: “It is absolutely vital institutions like the British Library, the National Library of the Netherlands and technical experts like the University of Salford work together, sharing our experiences and resolving the challenges we face in digitising historic texts. To ensure that ;we deliver the digital resources that are sustainable and meet the expectations of the 21st century researcher.”

Interesting facts from the release: the Library is over 250 years old and exceeds 150 million separate items.

Image CC licensed, stevecadman

 
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