ECAI Reference and Documentation

Title: Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents Author: SEAN TOWNSEND, CRESSIDA CHAPPELL AND OSCAR STRUIJVÉ Publisher: Year written or copyrighted: 1998 Contributed by: , AHDS Description: Arts and Humanities Data Service: Guide to good practice in Digitizing History. This guide is intended as a reference work for individuals and organisations involved with, or planning, the computerisation of historical source documents. It aims to recommend good practice and standards that are generic and relevant to a range of data creation situations, from student projects through to large-scale research projects. The guide focuses on the creation of tabular data suitable for use in databases, spreadsheets or statistics packages, however, many of the guidelines are more widely applicable. text or similar digital resource. The notion of 'electronic text' is interpreted very broadly, and discussion is not limited to any particular discipline, genre, language or period — although where space permits, issues that are especially relevant to these areas may be drawn to the reader's attention. URL: hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.asp