Digital Library Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Digital Library Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Digital Library related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Digital Library specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Digital Library Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Digital Library improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. Can standards be developed for digital libraries that facilitate interoperability and maintain ease of use, protection of intellectual property, and long term preservation of the archive of science?
   
   

2. Did you define your selected metadata standard, consider the challenges and interesting outcomes of the digital library creation process and interface design?
   
   

3. How did it come to be in and an archive, who were the previous owners, was the book or document part of a larger whole that has now been lost, and so on?
   
   

4. Will the potential repository be a fail safe repository, or will it provide the same functionality as the original digital items in the original form?
   
   

5. How collaborative is the relationship between the library and the information technology department in delivering services around digital humanities?
   
   

6. How do traditional archival values migrate into the computationally intensive environment made possible by copious digital data and digital tools?
   
   

7. Why do you need to consider the value of digital materials separately instead of bringing in best practices from physical information management?
   
   

8. How does digital asset management draw elements from document management, workflow management, Disaster Recovery, and business record archiving?
   
   

9. Does your program utilize digital tools to support and promote equitable access to information and resources through your library media program?
   
   

10. Which skills and knowledge held by special collections librarians and archivists are essential for managing born digital materials of any kind?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Digital Library book in PDF containing 999 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Digital Library self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Digital Library Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Digital Library areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Digital Library Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Digital Library projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Digital Library Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Digital Library project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: How do you address the risk of fraud and corruption?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: How could you define throughput and how would your organization benefit from maximizing it?
   
   

3. Project Portfolio management: Governance. how does your organization ensure that Digital Library project and program benefits and risks are being managed to optimize the overall value creation from the portfolio?
   
   

4. Procurement Management Plan: Are the schedule estimates reasonable given the Digital Library project?
   
   

5. Roles and Responsibilities: Are your policies supportive of a culture of quality data?
   
   

6. Risk Management Plan: How will the Digital Library project know if your organizations risk response actions were effective?
   
   

7. Team Performance Assessment: Social categorization and intergroup behaviour: Does minimal intergroup discrimination make social identity more positive?
   
   

8. Team Operating Agreement: Conflict resolution: how will disputes and other conflicts be mediated or resolved?
   
   

9. Responsibility Assignment Matrix: Does each role with Accountable responsibility have the authority within your organization to make the required decisions?
   
   

10. Lessons Learned: Was the Digital Library project significantly delayed/hampered by outside dependencies (outside to the Digital Library project, that is)?


 
Step-by-step and complete Digital Library Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Digital Library project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Digital Library project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Digital Library project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Digital Library project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Digital Library project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Digital Library project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Digital Library project with this in-depth Digital Library Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Digital Library projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Digital Library and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Digital Library investments work better.

This Digital Library All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.