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Lessons learned from a seven-year digitisation project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Journal of Digital Media Management,
8
(2),
138-144
(2019)
Abstract
With the completion of a large-scale project comes the inevitable question: what have we learned and how can we apply it in the future? This article reviews the lessons learned from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Services Office’s (ISO) project to digitise and preserve its collection of grey literature published by NIST and its predecessor, the National Bureau of Standards. This legacy digitisation project supported ISO’s mission to create, maintain and disseminate a knowledge base that supports NIST’s scientific, engineering and technical research. The article examines the project over its seven-year duration, its goals and lessons learned, and the path it has laid for digitisation and preservation of NIST publications in the future.
Keywords: grey literature; digitisation; technical reports; digital preservation; metadata; project management
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Author's Biography
Katelynd E. Bucher is a Metadata Librarian in the Information Services Office of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she is responsible for the digitisation, preservation and creation and curation of metadata for the NIST grey literature publications and the collections of the NIST Research Library and the NIST Historical Archives. She received her bachelor of arts in history from Penn State University, and her master of library and information science and advanced certificate in archives and records management from Long Island University.
