Once your materials have been digitized, cataloged and organized, they must be made available to potential users. All types of presentation require development of computer screens that will act as an interface for users interacting with the database to select, retrieve and view material on a computer screen. To simplify planning and implementing digitization projects, we are currently developing a simple sample screen design template. This template can be completed by your project staff to make materials available on the computer screen. This is a minimal standard that encourages coordination of projects in the future.
More sophisticated users can modify and augment the template to provide additional capabilities.
Projects at institutions that have existing catalog interfaces may decide to build on these. The sample screen will be available from our agency in the near future. See Attachment 10 . In fact, at present, they are among the most unstable, fragile storage media available. Digital files should always be considered transient.