Certain thematic issue may be used to gather support for the project, prioritize activities, organize the acquisition of collections, and help evaluate the scope of the collections. Collaborative efforts that complement each other will be another factor influencing the evaluation of scope. Collections selected for the Making of New York should provide important, authentic, and accurate information content about the history, culture, government, or industry of New York State. The project will provide a gatekeeper or publisher function to assure the high quality of content of any collections that become the Making of New York. Experts will be consulted to help evaluate the importance, completeness, authenticity, and accuracy of proposed collections.
Digitization presents opportunities to organize, display, and integrate collection sin new ways.
Technical standards are also of vital importance to the success of the project and all participants will be expected to meet basic technical specifications fro digital reproduction, interoperability, and access aids. Technical capabilities are changing and improving rapidly in the information field. The project will assist individual participants keep up by issuing and maintaining current technical standards and by using a panel of experts to advise in and evaluate proposed conversion strategies. Collections selected for the Making of New York will have a broad appeal to a variety of citizens of New York and others throughout the world. Use is an important but somewhat controversial selection criterion in collection development.