Here are the links from the Second Edition of the Handbook, last checked and updated in November 2019. I’m going to replace these with the links from the forthcoming Third Edition very soon!
New!
The READ project and Transkribus. Exciting work on handwritten text recognition and more.
Examples and case studies cited in the Handbook
- Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis, http://pacscl.org/BibliothecaPhiladelphiensis.
- British Newspaper Archive, www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/news/bna.
- Digital.Bodleian, http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk and www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2015/jul-09.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), https://dp.la.
- Europeana, www.europeana.eu.
- HathiTrust, www.hathitrust.org.
- Life-Share, https://lifeshareproject.wordpress.com/.
- Turning the Pages, ttp.onlineculture.co.uk.
- UK Medical Heritage Library, http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/uk-medical-heritage-library.
Useful websites
- Digital Curation Centre (focus on UK higher education research data), www.dcc.ac.uk.
- Digital Library Federation, www.diglib.org.
- Jisc Digital Media (this very useful site was retired in 2016 but can be found on the UK web archive), https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20160101151305/http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/.
The Special Collections Handbook 