The Open Collections Program
| Title: | The Open Collections Program (ID: CSD3926) | | Author(s): | Thomas J. Michalak (Harvard University), Christine Madsen (Harvard University) and Megan Hurst (Harvard University) | | Topics: | Digital Collections, Digital Library Services, Library Projects, Library Standards | | Source: | D-Lib Magazine | | Origin: | Community Contributions (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The goal of the Open Collections Program (OCP) of Harvard Harvard's library and museum collections for purposes of teaching, learning, and research — both at Harvard and around the world. The OCP believes that a topic-based approach to building digital collections creates broader and deeper collections thereby increasing relevance for a broad and diverse audience (teachers, scholars, students, and the generally curious). Materials are selected from across many collections at Harvard University for their relevance to a broad topic area and assembled into a multi-faceted and coherent digital collection. While this process is more laborious than selecting materials based on physical proximity of volumes on a shelf, or pre-existing collection groupings, the resulting digital collections become more pertinent to a broad spectrum of users. | | View this resource: | |
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