Policies and guidelines

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Submit your work to the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive

Online submission form for mediated ingest: https://library.rice.edu/rice-research-repository-submission

Project Development

• Rice Digital Scholarship Archive Deposit Guidelines
• Key factors to consider when digitizing materials (Collection Guidelines)
• Nominate a digital collection idea (Project Proposal Form)
• Project management (Digitization planning checklist)
• Digital Curation Profile Template  
• Resource: UCLA Library Special Collections Digital Project Toolkit (contains templates and examples for various stages of digital project planning and key tasks )
• DCC Curation Lifecycle Model

Guidelines for Digital Projects

• Care and handling of archival materials 
• Special recycling  

• Indus Scanner Guides
• Large format scanning specs  
• Digital Curation Lab, and scheduling guidelines see DCL calendar.

• Creating JPEG2000 derivatives and JPEG2000 Profile
• Standard jpeg and gif (thumbnails) derivatives
• FlatBed scanner guidelines
• Digitizing for IR deposit (PDF access file)
• PDF-A file guidelines  
• see also How to Remove PDF/A Information from a file
• Batch merge PDF files  (for MAC using Poppler/pdfunite)
• Batch merge PDF files (for PC using ImageMagick, Adobe Acrobat, and excel)
• Batch extract pages from pdfs  
• Image editing tips  

• Merge images methods
• see also How to stitch photos together in Photoshop 
• Tips for handling Special Cases in digitization

• Video and Audio content for IR Deposit  (Guidelines for single item video/audio deposits to the IR)
• Audio-Video processing workflow  (Collection level, archival materials)
• Preparing video access files for the IR and master video for near line storage Video: Born digital mov masters edited in Final Cut Pro to access steps
• Add captions to audio or video  

• Video thumbnails
• PDF thumbnails

• How to open txt files using UTF-8
• 7zip batch unzip multiple files

Quality Control

• QC Overview policy
• Quality control checks  for images
• How to use Adobe Bridge to proof images 
• QA Overview  

File management

• File naming conventions
• Project Server Guidelines
• Format Support  
• Recommended file formats  

• Preserving Master Files in the IR  
• Isilon Storage (Dark Archive) 

• Command line tool
• Extract filenames and file sizes 
• Steps to batch rename files 
• Steps to batch move files  
• Terminal commands (MAC)  
• Robocopy (Robust File Copy)  
• rsync  
• Calculate directory size  
• Exiftool commands and tips for extracting technical metadata 
• Command line resources  
• FITS (command line tool)
• BagIt (command line tool)  
• Use DROID, JHOVE and EXIFTOOL to validate formats and check for corrupt files (see QA Overview)

Intellectual property management

• Digital copyright workflow
• Right statements  
• IR Deposit License
• Fondren Library Consent to Publish in the IR form (typically used for archival materials) 

Metadata 

• Repository Metadata
• Guidelines for Embedded Image Metadata  (including tools for batch importing metadata to image files)
• Transition to FAST subjects (new project)
• Type Guidelines  

Ingest guidelines

• Overview: IR content input methods
• Deposit Checklist
• Batch ingest steps

• IR Withdrawal Policy
• Removing Files from Repository 

Platform/technical services

• DSS Systems Maintenance check list 

Tips and tools

• how to harvest metadata from repository using OAI-PMH
• transferring large files (eg tiff images to TEI Vendor / patron requests) -- 
• FTP
• Rice DropBox Service https://dropbox.rice.edu/
• Rice Box https://rice.account.box.com/login 
• https://wetransfer.com/ (free, no registration, file sharing)

Other

• page: Visual resources and tools
• Steps for annotating images 
• Connecting to the digital project server see Staff Wiki (log in required)