John Doyle, Technical Services Division Paul Theerman, History of Medicine Division Michael North, History of Medicine Division The interviews are summarized below. How and why did you decide to start the digitization? Digitization started at HMD when microfilming started dropping off. The first interest was in digitizing Cholera materials (Pamphlets/ Books) because, as it was the case for HIV/AIDS, Cholera epidemics is known for its quick epidemiological expansion to Asian, European and American countries between 1830 and 1880. 1500 copyright free items were hand scanned. What was your experience during the digitization? Most of the interviewees highlighted the importance of metadata creation and organization and reviewing. In addition to interacting team efforts to face project’s difficulties, they have been experienced individual problems’ solving according to their interest/ professional skills: Walter Cybulski and Margaret Byrnes: a lot of metadata work and post-scanning review. John Doyle: putting the data online using an open source pilot: FEDORA Paul Theerman: Digital image formatting, digital rights checking, standards and workflow managing. Michael North: collection preservation and conservation, team involvement materials’ selection. His advice to avoid detailed listing of materials to be scanned and to start by cataloguing first the materials selected before scanning them. Who are the staff required to complete the digitization? The interviewees talked about a 6-10 people team. Mainly digitization team should include: A manager / coordinator A Cataloger/ librarian A Historian A Conservation/ preservation technician. Two IT persons (XML, HTML, Scanning) Two System librarians (programming and access solutions) Which training was/ is required? METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) Hardware and software use, Scanning, Copyright law understanding,
John Doyle, Technical Services Division Paul Theerman, History of Medicine Division Michael North, History of Medicine Division The interviews are summarized below. How and why did you decide to start the digitization? Digitization started at HMD when microfilming started dropping off. The first interest was in digitizing Cholera materials (Pamphlets/ Books) because, as it was the case for HIV/AIDS, Cholera epidemics is known for its quick epidemiological expansion to Asian, European and American countries between 1830 and 1880. 1500 copyright free items were hand scanned. What was your experience during the digitization? Most of the interviewees highlighted the importance of metadata creation and organization and reviewing. In addition to interacting team efforts to face project’s difficulties, they have been experienced individual problems’ solving according to their interest/ professional skills: Walter Cybulski and Margaret Byrnes: a lot of metadata work and post-scanning review. John Doyle: putting the data online using an open source pilot: FEDORA Paul Theerman: Digital image formatting, digital rights checking, standards and workflow managing. Michael North: collection preservation and conservation, team involvement materials’ selection. His advice to avoid detailed listing of materials to be scanned and to start by cataloguing first the materials selected before scanning them. Who are the staff required to complete the digitization? The interviewees talked about a 6-10 people team. Mainly digitization team should include: A manager / coordinator A Cataloger/ librarian A Historian A Conservation/ preservation technician. Two IT persons (XML, HTML, Scanning) Two System librarians (programming and access solutions) Which training was/ is required? METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) Hardware and software use, Scanning, Copyright law understanding,