Digitization program
Criteria
Project criteria provide a means by which to ensure that the digital scholarship program is conducted in accordance with UVic Libraries' mission.
The following criteria will be used, as a tool, for evaluating projects to determine whether there will be a good return on investment; establishes a strong rationale extending instruction, research and scholarship, as well as requests for internal (staff and equipment) and external support.
The criteria are designed to assess strengths and weaknesses and promote an analytical approach, but they do not have equal weight, and not all may be relevant to any given project.
- Project provides significant support for UVic teaching, research and learning.
- There are faculty and librarian advocates for the project.
- The project's intrinsic value will ensure long-term use by a significant audience within and/or beyond the university community.
- The project has local or regional importance, and represents an effort only UVic can initiate.
- The project can be completed with available funding, or has the potential to generate funding through grants, donors, or other external fund sources.
- The project will strengthen or enhance an existing library resource, become part of an important virtual collection, or support a local, provincial or national initiative.
- UVic has intellectual property rights to the content and can manage any required restrictions to access, or can realistically solve any rights issues.
- The project falls within traditional areas of library service or moves our services in a direction consonant with the library's strategic directions.
- The project advances sustainable models for scholarly publishing.
- The project is reasonable, practical, and achievable.
- The project creates or sustains a partnership that the library will find valuable for future development.
- There is a compelling argument for digitizing material that is deteriorating.
- The project will expand our technical infrastructure or contribute to the development of national digital library standards.
A Digital Project Review Committee, which includes two sub-committees (Selection and Review Committee and the Technical Feasibility Committee) will review and recommend on the value and practical problems presented by any proposal to digitize materials.
List of digital collections projects.
Adapted from UCLA Library Criteria for Digital Project by the UCLA Library. Used with permission.