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== Major Issues in Digitisation ==

The Digitisation Working Group is identifying major issues in digitisation which need to be tackled. Decisions still need to be made on how best to tackle these issues.

=== Intellectual Property Rights ===



=== Long-term Curation of Digital Objects ===

This issue includes the following elements:
* Annotations.
* Curation of workflows.
* Maintaining a collection that has been partially or fully digitised along with the physical collection.
* Curation of born digital objects.
* ICT issues involved in digital curation may be outside the scope (eg storage) although decision-making in this area was often being tasked to the digitisation curator and we may need to consider how we aim to come up with best practice for our area.
* Items not linked to Natural History collections were considered outside the scope.
* Internal curation workflows – our physical objects change over time so how do we maintain the digital version?
* Updating the physical specimens if the digital record changes.
* Correcting geographic data on the specimen – could be done when the specimen is being handled for other purposes.


Relevant literature and websites:

[http://www.dcc.ac.uk/digital-curation/what-digital-curation Digital Curation Centre]

=== Funding for Digitisation ===

=== Resolution of Images ===

=== Application of Stable URIs ===