n.an aggregation of archival resources originating from analog records transformed to a digital formMurphy et al. 2015, 447In a matter of hours, the digitization assistant arranged the digitized collection into series, including correspondence, events, and publicity, with subseries presented as nested folders.Farley and Willey 2015, 464The public expectation of and appetite for digitized collections are growing. . . . Digitization of the Wisconsin School for Girls’ records would allow a wider patron base to access the collection, unfettered by geographic or institutional time restraints.Craft, Gwynn, and Smith 2016, 192Some digitized collections, such as the Frederick Douglass Scrapbook of the Monroe County (NY) Library System or the Briggs Scrapbooks of the Virginia Department of Historical Resources, are really no more than PDF files linked from static HTML pages within the repository’s website. They lack detailed metadata, and no real attempt has been made to display a hierarchical relationship between pages and the embedded content within attached items, such as multipage booklets and folded letters.Parilla and Ferriter 2016, 442The Transcription Center is a website and program of engagement for the public. It also provides a service for museum units and researchers by inviting the public to transcribe digitized collections. . . . The result is text that can be indexed for searching, which makes the content of digitized collections more readily discoverable by the public and researchers alike.Force and Smith 2021, 92Context-rich descriptions, with detailed metadata for digital surrogates and clear linkages back to physical analog objects, are the exception rather than the rule for digitized collections. . . . This gap in descriptive information can potentially distort research, in large part because all physical archival items within most digitized collections will likely not be represented by equivalent digital surrogates.Jaillant 2022, 534Originally conceived as a response to the huge increase in paper records and uncataloged collections, MPLP has been increasingly applied to digitized collections to increase access.Gilbert et al. 2023, 627With limited access to undigitized archival material, the team reprioritized to focus on development of a new Profiles collection drawing from already digitized collections available through the mass digitization efforts of the NLM Archives and Modern Manuscripts program.
