Case study: lessons learned through digitizing the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Collection*†
| Autor: | Shana D. Kelley, Amy J. Hatfield |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Indiana
Research Subjects Advisory Committees Libraries Digital Library science Special collections Health Informatics Bioethics Medical library Library and Information Sciences Digital library Discoverability World Wide Web Patient Rights Library Collection Development Organizational Case Studies Humans Sociology Digital scholarship National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Brief Communications Digitization Software |
| Popis: | The Indiana University Center for Bioethics (IUCB) and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library (RLML), Indiana University School of Medicine, joined forces in 2005 to augment online access to bioethics-related materials by developing the Bioethics Digital Library (BEDL) [1]. BEDL's goal is to acquire or borrow unique bioethics-related materials and special collections for digitization, to preserve the digitized materials, and to provide open access to these materials through a full-text indexed, Web-integrated database. To enhance discoverability of BEDL materials, content will be linked to citation records in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature ETHX on the Web database [2] as well as other appropriate digital repositories, creating a network of bioethics resources with multiple access points. Interest in providing open access to digital scholarship is increasing as evidenced by the National Institutes of Health's Public Access Policy [3] and the introduction of the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA, S.2695) [4]. One way to contribute to the open access initiative is to convert historical materials found in disparate locations to digital formats that are discoverable and freely accessible on the Internet. This paper presents a digitization case study that illustrates the challenges of transforming a historical collection to a digital collection while attempting to retain the look and feel of the original historical materials. |
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