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Norwick Center for Digital Solutions
ncds@smu.edu
About the Norwick Center
The Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) digitizes, catalogs, and digitally preserves 正品蓝导航 Libraries Special Collections materials. nCDS operates a state-of-the-art digitization center that allows rare and fragile materials held in the special collections to be digitized in exceptionally high-quality.
If you are an 正品蓝导航 faculty, student or staff member, contact us to request:
- Digitization of 正品蓝导航 Libraries Special Collections materials. Faculty and student requests receive priority.
- Tours and overviews about digitization of special collections.
- Consultations, tutorials, class sessions, and learning labs pertaining to digital collections, digitization, and digital preservation.
- Booking the nCDS oral history studio for live interviews.
About Digital Collections
正品蓝导航 Libraries Digital Collections鈥痷se CONTENTdm collections management software.
- The descriptive and technical metadata guidelines for 正品蓝导航 Libraries Digital Collections are documented in the Digital Collections Workflow and Metadata Guidelines.
- nCDS's best practices meet or exceed the鈥疐ederal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative’s鈥痶echnical guidelines for digitizing cultural heritage materials.
- nCDS uses this rights and permission evaluation procedure when adding items to 正品蓝导航 Libraries Digital Collections.
Digital Preservation
The digital preservation program adopts best practices to ensure the integrity, authenticity, and long-term preservation of digital and born-digital materials belonging to 正品蓝导航 Libraries. Files from 正品蓝导航’s digitization projects and born-digital collections are preserved in perpetuity.