Professional Reading: How to create a website: guiding principles & Digitizing Historical Maps
1) How to create a website: guiding principles
UNESCO’s orientation in providing intellectual inputs into any endeavours is manifested in the manual “How to create a website: Guiding Principles”. Available in hard copy and CD-ROM, it provides guidelines based on lessons learned and good practices. Rather than provide technical stem-by-step procedures for creating a product, usually found in many handbooks, this manual offers theories, principles, strategies and techniques based on decades of experiences of those who have developed websites that met users’ expectations. For example, to make a website more appealing visually and artistically, principles and lessons learned are
given rather than the actual process of designing a visually appealing website. Instead of demonstrating how to configure the server or upload a website on a platform, the manual provides criteria on what server or operating system to choose. Instead of showing how to set up a web-based database, it explains which database software are available in the market and what are their advantages and disadvantages.
Source: UNESCO New Delhi (via E-LIS)
2) From Drawer to Digital: A Statewide Collaboration for Historic Maps Digital Projects
The two comprehensive public universities in Nevada are building complementary digital collections of historic maps of interest to the region to enable virtual map library visits. This article briefly describes the two university library map collections, discusses the criteria that were used to select maps to be digitized, provides insight into some of the scanning issues and how they were resolved, discusses technical considerations in using CONTENTdm, and talks about metadata issues in the collaborative effort. The conclusion provides insight into what has been learned and why the project is important as a foundation for the future.
Cartographic Perspectives (52 (Fall 2005)):pp. 63-69. (via E-LIS)