Getting started
The Make it Digital approach is to identify elements of good practice for digital content creation based on an understanding of the digital content life cycle (including the new digitising family history & whakapapa)
Selecting for digitisation
Whether you plan to create new material or digitise existing material, having a robust selection and prioritisation process will be key to a successful outcome (including the Make it Digital Scorecard)
Creating digital content
The choices you make at the point of creation, in particular the format that your content is created in, greatly affects how useful and long-lived your content will be (including image standards)
Describing digital content
File naming conventions are essential to good workflow and organisation, while structured metadata that follows open standards is central to usability and interoperability
Managing digital content
Acquiring a basic knowledge and practice of records or collection management is a pre-requisite for good digital content management (New guide)
Enabling use & reuse
Good practice needs to encourage users to respect clear rights and licence statements that focus on permitted behaviour and providing value that does not rely on controlling copies (Including the updated Public Domain guide)
Contribute to the guides
The guides are a continual work in progress. Please let us know if you are interested in contributing to the development of the next guides we are working on:
