-- This page is no longer updated, it represents the status on 31st March 2008 ---- Information Papers --

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

-- General Papers --

[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 an XML Editor]
A review of the software available for editing XML

[Audio Recording of Workshops and Seminars]
Advice on recording an event such as a seminar or workshop

[outsourcing]
This information paper addresses the process of contracting out work to external service providers.

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

[A life after the project - continuation and sustainability]
Issues in ensuring a resource thrives once project funding ends

[Issues in recording digital performances]
Notes written for those recording performances as part of an AHRC grant application

[Developing a Website in the Arts and Humanities]
An introduction to best practice for designing websites in the academic environment

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