Wellcome library – part of Wellcome trust, a charitable foundation which funds research and includes research\/contextualisation etc of medical history<\/p>\n
Wellcome library has a lot of unique content – which is the focus of their digitisation efforts. Story so far:<\/p>\n
Image library created from transparencies\/prints – and on demand photography – 300,000 images
\nJournal backfiles digitisations
\nWellcome Filme – 500+ titles
\nAIDS poster projects
\nArabic manuscripts – 500 manuscripts (probably biggest single project)
\n17th Century recipe books<\/p>\n
Contribute to Europeana<\/p>\n
Digitisation part of longterm strategy for the library – but while aim is to eventually digitise everything, need target content.<\/p>\n
Digitisation archival material, around 2000 books 1850-1990 (pilot project – and of course will test waters in copyright areas). Also contributing to Early European Books project – commercial partnership with ProQuest.<\/p>\n
Approach to digitisation projects has changed. Previously did smaller (<10,000 pages) projects, relatively ad hoc, entirely open access, library centric, no major IT investment – but now doing large project (>100,000 pages) with involvement from wider range of stakeholders – within and outside organisation, needs major IT development. Also increasing commercial partnerships mean not all outputs will be ‘open access’ – although feel that this is about additional material that would not have been done otherwise…<\/p>\n
Need to move<\/p>\n
Streamlining:<\/p>\n
Upscaling and streamlining digitisation requires a higher level of project management<\/p>\n