Welcome

Hello and Welcome to the Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA) "Beyond the Digital Walls" collection creation blog. This blog was created by Brendon Guilliams, Sharon Routh, Tricia Smith and Robert Waltz for IS 565 Digital Libraries class through the University of Tennessee. The site chronicles our journey working with the CFRA in creating a digital collection to house the center's archived documents. Thanks for visiting our site!

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to offer guidance into the creation of a digital library collection at the Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA). The guideline featured will discuss digital library software as well as digital imaging recommendations. The recommendations and guidelines within this piece are not the final say and should be taken only as suggestion to be referred to on a case-by-case biases.The guidelines were developed with the following aspects in mind:
  • Ease of Future implementation of digital library on the CFRA’s server
  • Increase accessibility and interoperability
  • Ensure consistency and continuity
  • Ensure crosswalk operations to allow for ease of data transfer to CFRA’s server from the test site
  • Provide a baseline for materials digitization process
Since technologies and standards are in an ever changing state the following recommendations should be look at as ever evolving and should be modified as the technologies improve.
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