Information Papers

AHDS Information Papers provide information on a range of issues relating to creating and preserving digital resources

Link to Creating. Image of banana-ripening hut, Mpaija, Hoima [AHDS History study number: 4169]

An Introduction to Creating a Digital Resource
Key issues in starting a digital project

Writing the AHRC Technical Appendix
Help for those seeking AHRC funding

Choosing and XML editor
A review of the software available for editing XML

Risk Management and Contingency Planning
An introduction to risk management processes for both large and small digitisation projects

From the AHDS Digitisation Workshop Series (2004, 2005)
1. Planning and managing digital resource creation projects
How to organise a successful digitisation project
2. The Digitisation Process
Converting your material from analogue to digital - in preparation
3. Metadata for your Digital Resource
How to record information about the data you have digitised.
4. Copyright and Other Rights Issues in Digitisation
An intro to those annoying copyright problems
5. Why bother with digitisation? Users and using digital resources
Catering for the actual people that will use your resource