Digital Projects Guide
This guide outlines the key considerations for well-planned digital library projects and provides links to pertinent web-accessible resources. The guide includes information that is specific to projects at Harvard University as well as more generalized information.
Metadata
Determine the metadata required to support discovery, use and preservation of your collection.
General
Metadata (Office for Information Systems - Harvard University Library)
Introduction to Metadata (The Getty) - Descriptive Metadata (Cataloging)
- Standards and Best Practices
- Descriptive Metadata (Office for Information Systems - Harvard University Library)
- Harvard University Cataloging Services
- Harvard College Library's Imaging Services Cataloging (Library Preservation at Harvard)
- Technical Metadata
- Standards and Best Practices
- Harvard University Library Documentation
- Digital Repository Services Documentation
- Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images (Office for Information Systems – Harvard University Library)
Administrative Metadata for Digital Audio Files (Office for Information Systems – Harvard University Library) - Structural Metadata
- Standards and Best Practices
- Technical Metadata (Office for Information Systems - Harvard University Library)
METS - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (Library of Congress)
TEI - Text Encoding Initiative (the TEI Consortium)
CDL Structured Text Working Group TEI Encoding Guidelines (California Digital Library)
SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (W3C) - Harvard University Structural Metadata Services
- Preservation Metadata
- Standards and Best Practices
- Preservation Metadata (Office for Information Systems - Harvard University Library)
- Rights Metadata
- Standards and Best Practices
- Rights Metadata (Office for Information Systems - Harvard University Library)