Serials digitisation programme

The BDI Guide Committee identified serials as another sector to intervene for digital activities coordination, for duplication interventions’ prevention, for new users services development, and for obsolescence materials’ protection.
A workgroup with the task of the elaboration of the guidelines for institutions working in serials digitisation projects and libraries use has been created.
This workgroup elaborated a document to be presented in the next Guide Committee meeting. The document will contain the criterions for the choice of digitisation materials, the aims of the intervention, the preservation, acquisition, and register forms, standards and metadata schema to use.
In particular, the workgroup individuated in MAG (administrative and operational metadata) standard, elaborated by the Study Group on Metadata Standards and Applications in Cultural Heritage, the referee standard for resource management.
Together with the guidelines editing, a data collection to create an archive to inform and to update already realized or  going to be realized projects and digitised serials, too has been started.
At the moment it is possible to insert and/or update these data directly in a online database.