Ramping it up: 10 lessons learnt in mass digitisation

By Rose Holley*

In 2007 the National Library of Australia (NLA) began a large-scale newspaper digitisation program that aimed to digitise one million pages (10 million articles) per year, with a view to increasing the volume over time and ramping up digitisation to include books and journals as well as newspapers. By the end of 2009 the NLA had learnt 10 key lessons about ramping up its digitisation activities into a mass-scale operation.

The full article can be accessed here: “Ramping it up: 10 lessons learnt in mass digitisation” (2010) 24 OLC 16.

*Rose Holley, Manager, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, National Library of Australia.