Best Practices

On February 9, 2015, in time for the Annual Conference, CAA will publish the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, a set of principles addressing best practices in the fair use of copyrighted materials based on a consensus of opinion developed through discussions with visual-arts professionals. It will be a vital resource for all those working in the field, including artists, art historians, museum professionals, and editors.

Over 150 librarians, archivists and other memory institution professionals have contributed to the development of this Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Collections Containing Orphan Works. This statement provides clear and easy to understand guidance for memory institutions that seek to provide digital preservation and access to collections containing copyrighted, orphan works under the doctrine of fair use.

This is the final issue of the TIMBUS newsletter so it’s a good time to reflect on how TIMBUS has offered new insights and capabilities for digital preservation and business continuity. These can be summed up in a single slogan: more than data!

INTRODUCTION

Australia’s public collecting institutions enrich public life by displaying, interpreting, making accessible and preserving the world’s shared cultural, scientific and historic heritage.

Key Takeaways

Equipment for Image Digitisation Projects
In any digitisation project it is necessary to consider the types of equipment that will be needed. There are a number of different ways to capture digital images such as cameras, flatbed scanners and book scanners, each of which performs a different function as well as having their own pros and cons.

Ross King's summary of the EU Scape Project outcomes.

It is difficult to write that headline. After nearly four years of hard work, worry, setbacks, triumphs, weariness, and exultation, the SCAPE project is finally coming to an end.
I am convinced that I will look back at this period as one of the highlights of my career. I hope that many of my SCAPE colleagues will feel the same way.
I believe SCAPE was an outstanding example of a successful European project, characterised by

As librarians continue to grapple with licensed rather than purchased content, many have turned to perpetual access agreements to retain some of the norms of the print world. However, a license agreement only represents the beginning of a library's relationship with a vendor, and perpetual access is not fully assured when the license is signed. In order to maintain perpetual access, librarians must continually track their perpetual access entitlements and adjust their holdings information when changes occur.

“What happens at BPE stays at BPE.”

So goes the oft-repeated mantra at the annual Best Practices Exchange conference, held this year under mostly-sunny skies in beautiful downtown Salt Lake City, UT.

In this paper we describe a process of consultation and data gathering with key stakeholders conduced by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) in 2011/2013. This paper will examine the contributions of the interview process to policy development and requirements gathering with a particular focus on access, reuse and community engagement.