The data from the Digital Collections Development Policy Survey is intended to discover digital collection development practices at cultural heritage organizations, focusing on the policies that describe criteria for the selection of Special Collections resources (i.e. rare and unique archival photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, rare books, and donated born-digital items) for digitization and publication in open access digital library.

Last modified

• 06/01/2026

Creator

• Wittmann, Rachel Jane
• Breiman, Jessica

Subject

• Digital libraries--Collection development
• Collection development (Libraries)--Policy statements
• Digital libraries
• Libraries--Special collections--Digital images

Language

• English

Identifier

• https://doi.org/10.7278/S5d-b5fj-gs57

Keyword

• digital collections
• archives
• libraries
• digital curation
• policies
• survey data
• museums
• special collections

Date created

• 2024-10-30 to 2024-11-25

Resource type

• Dataset

Source

• Library of Congress Subject Headings

License

• CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.