Presentation given at National Collections and the Digital Humanities seminar at The University of Edinburgh, 14 February 2014. Presented by Gill Hamilton, DIgital Access Manager on behalf of National Library of Scotland.

1. digitised collections
and services
gill hamilton
digital access manager
g.hamilton@nls.uk

2. digitisation
since early 2000s
in-house
some in partnership
mass digitisation
Scottish, topical, preservation, exhibitions

3. print & manuscript collections

4. image collections

5. film and sound collections

6. map collections

7. challenges
selection
description
correction
use and promotion
and that old chestnut …. resourcing

8. selection
Request a
digital copy

9. description - transcription
http://en.wikipedi.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe
Something out of Deen
Swift and she said
I was fit for the Stage
and you may think
I was primmed up
with magestick Pride
but upon my word
felt myselfe turn a
little lirsay lursay is
a word which is a word

10. description - georeferencer
http://en.wikipedi.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe

11. description – semantic
We think this
is Cambrai
Do you think
it’s this
Cambrai?
Or this
Cambrai?

12. correction – OCR

13. use – The Historic Maps API
http://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/

14. use – various methods
Wikimedian-in-Residence
open metadata
and
digital content
policy

15. Here today from NLS
Gill Hamilton, Digital Access Manager
Tony Stuart, IS Development Manager
Fred Sanderson, IPR Officer
National Library of Scotland
NLS digital collections
NLS historic maps API
NLS map collections
NLS Screen Archive collection
Wikimedian-in-Residence
http://www.nls.uk/
http://digital.nls.uk/
http://maps.nls.uk/projects/api/
http://maps.nls.uk/
http://ssa.nls.uk/
Ally Crockford a.crockford@nls.uk