Part 1 Assignment: What Do You Need To Know?
Submit in a Word document your five most important questions for assessing the scope and feasibility of the project. Explain why these are the most important questions.
Resources
Use these resources to see the types of questions that need to be answered when planning a digitization project.
• Sustainable Heritage Network
• IFLA
Part 2 Assignment: What are the Next Steps?
Write a memo to your supervisor, Dr. Graves (Director, Scholarly Communications) outlining next steps. In this memo:
1. Identify areas where you need more information from Dr. Perez.
2. Propose a timeline for evaluating the collection.
3. Identify the people that you want on your team to help you create your budget (See “Resources,” below.). Try to keep your team below 8 members.
4. List your criteria for selecting team members.
Part 3 Assignment: What are the Next Steps?
Write a memo to your supervisor, Dr. Graves (Director, Scholarly Communications) presenting your recommendation.
If you recommend moving forward, what needs to be done first? What will be available for public use on the web? Will you have phases? Include important information provided by other task force members.
Your memo should have the following sections:
All the information you need may not be here. Incomplete information is a risk; be sure and identify it as such in your memo.
1. Description of the project and scope
2. Cost
3. Reasons to acquire the collection
4. Reasons not to acquire the collection, and
5. Consequences of not acquiring it
Your memo should also answer the following questions:
• What benefits will the collection generate for its intended audience(s)?
• What is the unique selling point (the particular qualities that differentiate this collection from others like it?)
• What is the target audience or audiences and what is its size?
• What are the enabling technologies?
• What are the risks?
• Who will fund the initiative now and over time, and how?
Submit your memo to the instructor as a Word document.