Suggestions for Effective Collaboration on Digital Projects

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This presentation discusses suggestions for effective collaboration on digital projects. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit regularly collaborates with other departments, campus entities, and external institutions. The Digital Projects Unit currently has over two hundred partners of various kinds contributing to the more than 260,000 digital objects in their system. This presentation will discuss procedures and techniques that can help to streamline collaborative projects, and outline some of the concerns that institutions may want to keep in mind when starting similar projects. The presenters will focus on providing suggestions to help others have more successful collaborative digital projects including: considerations at the initial point of contact, managing the practical aspects of the process to make digitization run smoothly, and the benefits of collaborative projects for participants and the users that access their digital items.

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Creation Date: May 24, 2012
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UNT Libraries
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UNT Scholarly Works
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Tarver, Hannah

University of North Texas

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Moore, Jeremy

University of North Texas

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  • Creation: May 24, 2012
Description:

This presentation discusses suggestions for effective collaboration on digital projects. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit regularly collaborates with other departments, campus entities, and external institutions. The Digital Projects Unit currently has over two hundred partners of various kinds contributing to the more than 260,000 digital objects in their system. This presentation will discuss procedures and techniques that can help to streamline collaborative projects, and outline some of the concerns that institutions may want to keep in mind when starting similar projects. The presenters will focus on providing suggestions to help others have more successful collaborative digital projects including: considerations at the initial point of contact, managing the practical aspects of the process to make digitization run smoothly, and the benefits of collaborative projects for participants and the users that access their digital items.

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15 p.

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Keyword(s): digital projects | digital libraries | collaboration | digitization
Source: Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), 2012, Austin, Texas, United States
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UNT Libraries
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UNT Scholarly Works
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