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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'> Henda van der Berg [mailto:JHMVDBERG@nrf.ac.za] <br><b>Sent:</b> 09 February 2011 11:34<br><b>To:</b> Henda van der Berg<br><b>Subject:</b> Managing Digital Collections: a collaborative initiative on the South African Framework<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The publication <i><span style='color:blue'>“</span>Managing Digital Collections: a Collaborative Initiative on the South African Framework<span style='color:blue'>”</span>. </i>Published by the National Research Foundation, December 2010, is available at: <span style='color:blue'><a href="http://digi.nrf.ac.za/publ/Managing%20Digital%20Collections.pdf" title="blocked::http://digi.nrf.ac.za/publ/Managing Digital Collections.pdf">http://digi.nrf.ac.za/publ/Managing Digital Collections.pdf</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The NRF gratefully acknowledges the generous financial su<span style='color:blue'> </span>pport of the <b>Carnegie Corporation of New York</b> which made this publication possible.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Overview of the publication</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>The framework provides principles and guidelines to assist planners, policy developers and managers of digital collections gain a sense of the digitisation landscape. It can be either a reference (to be consulted as and when required) or an overview (to be read from beginning to end). It is not a step-by-step manual of digitisation processes ? that will be the function of training initiatives for personnel actually doing the digitisation ? but it can support and supplement training by being prescribed reading for digitisation students and staff. This will assist them by providing an overall understanding of the broader perspectives and the multiple processes involved in building good digital collections.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Each chapter is devoted to a different area of the digitisation process and is authored by an authority in that area of specialisation. A chapter on community practice examines the emerging community developing standards and guidelines in order to find consensus about what constitutes good practice. It reviews at documents such as reports that have shaped and continue to shape principles of good practice. Before proceeding with any digitisation, the intellectual property issues and most specifically copyright issues need to be understood within the legal framework.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>There is a chapter on the current South African legislation and its relation to digital resources.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Digital collection development is the broad term for the management of digital collections which may not necessarily be housed in any one location but may consist of several collections on a theme, across several organisations. A chapter on selection criteria and development criteria is complemented by a subsequent chapter on digital objects.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Metadata plays an essential role in the access, storage, discovery, preservation and exchange of digital resources. It provides the mechanism for efficient and effective management of all digital resources. A chapter on metadata examines international standards for the creation of quality metadata.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>A chapter on digital infrastructure focuses on the hardware, software and middleware required to host digital collections as well as the digital content management system to ingest, preserve and deliver content to and from the Web. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Components required for an efficient digital preservation program are discussed in a chapter where the resources required to sustain preservation programs are discussed. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>The final chapter of the publication addresses the planning, overall management, quality assurance and evaluation of a digital collections project.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=239 height=94 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image979efd.jpg@d7663fff.4f5747af"><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=137 valign=top style='width:103.1pt;border:solid white 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>Meiring Naude Road</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>Brummeria</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>PO Box 2600</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>Pretoria, 0001</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>South Africa</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'><a href="http://www.nrf.ac.za/">http://www.nrf.ac.za</a></span><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td><td width=272 valign=top style='width:204.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid white 1.0pt;border-right:solid white 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>Henda van der Berg</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>Principal Information Specialist</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:0pt'>Information Resources Services<br>Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 4016<br>Fax: +27 (0) 12 481 4231 <br>Email: JHMVDBERG@nrf.ac.za</span><span lang=EN-US style='letter-spacing:0pt'> </span><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='letter-spacing:0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>