Share these talks and lectures with your colleagues
Invite colleaguesPractice paper
Cooperative models for digital archives
Journal of Digital Media Management,
10
(3),
215-226
(2022)
Abstract
Cooperative models for digital archives management offer innovative means of utilising resources, skills and knowledge from multiple institutions to support shared online collections. To outline the benefits and challenges of working within a consortial model, this paper provides three case studies, focusing on distributed governance, metadata quality assurance, resource sharing, financial security, and diversity and equity. While the increased number of stakeholders can complicate the management of a shared digital media repository, strategies such as hierarchical funding structures, means of ensuring transparent and equitable decision making, and a reliance on distributed skill sets can ensure a digital library project is successful for both partners and users.
Keywords: digital archives; cooperative models; metadata; funding structures; governance structures; resource sharing
The full article is available to subscribers to the journal.
Author's Biography
Emily Zinger is a librarian and project manager for the Southeast Asia Digital Library and the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia at Cornell University. She also sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship. Prior to this, she worked as a Junior Editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification at the Library of Congress. Emily has a master of information studies from McGill University and bachelor’s degrees in psychology and English from the College of William & Mary.
Shaneé Yvette Murrain is Director of Community Engagement for the Digital Public Library of America, where she builds and promotes inclusive collections that reflect the nation’s shared cultural heritage. Previously, Shaneé was the university archivist and an assistant professor at the University of West Georgia. Shaneé holds a BA in religion and philosophy from Bethune-Cookman University, a master of divinity from Drew Theological School and a master of library science from North Carolina Central University. Shaneé is a past president of the Society of Georgia Archivists and has served on the Board of Directors of Atla (formerly the American Theological Library Association).
Emma Thomson coordinates work on the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, where she is responsible for approving all new records, managing the internal authority files for the database, producing instructional content and helping people use and contribute to the database. She is also responsible for the Digital Scriptorium redevelopment project. She holds an MS in library and information studies from Florida State University and a BA in religion from the New College of Florida.
