The National Research Foundation has released Managing Digital Collections: A Collaborative Initiative on the South African Framework.
Here's an excerpt:
The objective of this Framework is to provide high-level principles for planning and managing the full digital collection life cycle. It aims to
- provide an overview of some of the major components and activities involved in creating good digital collections
- provide a sense of the landscape of digital collections management
- identify existing resources that support the development of sound local practices
- encourage community participation in the ongoing development of best practices for digital collection building
- contribute to the benefits of sound data management practices, as well as the goals of data sharing and long term access
- introduce data management and curation issues
- assist cultural heritage organisations to create and manage complex digital collections
- assist funding organisations who wish to encourage and support the development of good digital collections
- advocate the use of internationally-created appropriate open community standards to ensure quality and to increase global interoperability for better exchange and re-use of data and digital content.
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