Selection
Possible Selection Criteria For Digital Resources
The following are potential selection criteria that might be applied by a national bibliographic agency when developing its policy for digital resources.
- Unique content (i.e. solely available in digital form)
- Value in relation to an existing analogue collection i.e. the resource complements the analogue collection; continues solely in digital form a formerly analogue resource, e.g. a journal that started as print and converted to electronic, no longer continuing the print issues)
- Representative of digital ephemera that will be of relevance to future researchers
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Technical requirements for use i.e.:
- Ease of navigation
- Range of functionality
- Server reliability
- Ease of migration)
- Metadata (the availability of associated metadata)
Representative of contemporary digital resources