References for Best Practices

Please browse the following linked pages for reference in getting started with your project. You may find it beneficial to familiarize yourself with some of these metadata schema, copyright guidelines, and digitization practices. If you have a guideline or resource to suggest, feel free to send it to forumsupport@jstor.org.

Cataloging Guidelines

• American Museum of Natural History: Digital Special Collections Procedures & Style Guide http://images.library.amnh.org/san/amnhcataloging.pdf
• Cataloging Cultural Objects http://cco.vrafoundation.org/
• CCO cataloging examples http://cco.vrafoundation.org/index.php/toolkit/index_of_examples/
• Darwin Core for Biodiversity Information Standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Core
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative http://dublincore.org/
• Dublin Core to VRA Core Conversion Mapping http://core.vraweb.org/vracore_conversions.html
• Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
• Metadata Object Description Schema http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
• Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary Project http://pbcore.org/
• Visual Resources Association Core http://vraweb.org/author/vra-core/
• VRA Core cataloging examples http://core.vraweb.org/vracore_examples.html

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines

• Collage Art Association: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts (2014) http://www.collegeart.org/fair-use/
• Visual Resources Association: Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research and Study (2011) http://online.vraweb.org/vrab/vol38/iss1/5/
• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States https://copyright.cornell.edu/ resources/publicdomain.cfm
• Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC) http://dirc.vraweb.org/
• Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/

Digitization Guidelines

• American Library Association http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/preserv/minimum-digitization-capture-recommendations
• Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/
• JISC https://www.jisc.ac.uk/
• National Archives and Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/digitization/
• University of Illinois: Best Practices for Digitization http://www.library.illinois.edu/dcc/bestpractices/chapter_03_creatingdigitalimages.html
• Sustainability Health Check Tool for Digital Content Projects http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ files/2013/01/sustainability_ healthcheck_tool.pdf