Principles
and Guidelines
The Oxford Digital
Library plans to build up a significant set of digital resources
for local and remote online access. Like traditional collection
development long-term sustainability and permanent availability
are major goals for the Oxford Digital Library. Therefore
the use of standards in the digital conversion process and
for the description of digital resources will be essential
for projects funded through and supported by ODL.
With respect to
the overarching remit of ODL as a "Hybrid Library"
digital resources provided by ODL will have to be compatible
with that used in traditional libraries, at least to the extent
of allowing integrated searching across distributed repositories.
The Oxford Digital
Library provides technical expertise and experience for
digital
projects over the planning process and offers advice throughout
the entire project process. Guidelines have already been
published for best practices in metadata
schemes; future guidelines will
cover the digital conversion process, and metadata
capture.
Information
on metadata usage within
the Oxford Digital Library is now available to view.
The document is in pdf format.
