NELINET consulting staff can assist you with your digital projects. We have extensive knowledge of the issues and trends in the digital arena, as well-as a familiarity with the details, processes, and best practices of numerous digital projects.

NELINET offers consulting for your digital projects in the following areas:

• Develop project goals, timeline, work plan, and budget
• Identify appropriate collections for digitization
• Assess merits of developing in-house expertise versus outsourcing
• Identify appropriate service vendors
• Develop and document decisions and workflow
• Plan evaluation mechanisms

• Determine metadata requirements for your digital collections
• Understand the issues behind metadata and their effect on access to your collections
• Implement metadata creation, including development of templates, automation of processes, and workflow
• Integrate metadata into existing systems (ILS, web portals, etc.)

• Assess collection materials
• Determine appropriate scanning specifications for your collections
• Evaluate equipment and vendor services

For more information, please contact Erin Logsdon (1.800.635.4638 x1931 or logsdon@nelinet.net).

May 29, 2008