GOOD PRACTICE FORM FOR NOMINATIONS

We propose to start the activity of the workgroup on 'good practice' proposing an initial set of some main areas where to put the nominations. In particular we think to start with the basic issue of digitisation itself.
Each project can be 'nominated' for more than one area, following your evaluation of the most important features contained in the example.

AREAS for nominations of 'good practice' for on-going projects on digitisation:
1.	Preservation of physical objects via digitisation and electronic surrogates.
2.	High quality of the digitisation process.
3.	Metadata and Thesaurus.
4.	Usability of project results.
5.	Management of the process and workflow
6.	Accessibility including copyright issues and web sites

For each project please specify:

•	Area of 'good practice' where you like to nominate your project (you can put more than only one area): 

Usability of project results
Accessibility including copyright issues and web sites

•	Name: Edit16

•	Responsible body and/or any specific : Istituto centrale per il Catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (ICCU)
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Co-ordinating body/mechanism:

•	Contact person: Claudia Leoncini

•	Web site: http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it

•	Description of the project, objectives and priorities:

EDIT16 (Census of Italian 16th Century Editions) aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century and at reviewing the countrywide heritage. It includes editions printed in Italy between 1501 and 1600, in any language, and editions printed abroad in Italian.
At the present time the Census is receiving input from some 1200 Italian libraries, the Biblioteca statale della Repubblica San Marino and some libraries belonging to the State of the Vatican City, among which the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana.
Besides the titles, EDIT 16 also contains information about the authors, publishers, uniform titles, printers' devices. It therefore can be used for direct searches on authors, printers and printers' devices.
EDIT16 contains digitalized pictures of all printers'devices and of a part of title-pages and colophon because their digitization is still going on.
The images are subject to some enhancement but the quality may be quite different from one image to another.
They are not intended to represent a facsimile of the item but to improve bibliographic informations and to facilitate the identification of different editions.

•	The main technical features for what you consider the project a 'good practice' example:

Edit16 software is running in every Windows 32/bit (WINxx/NT/2000) platform.
Images are in a double form, BMP for the management system and JPG for the WEB. So we can keep high quality images and obtain a fast access via WEB.

•	Long term sustainability strategy:

•	Accessibility by users via local network or Internet (describe modalities and IPR issue from a technical point of view):

Free access via Internet

•	Problems encountered :

Comments: 

Figures and documents enclosed:

I agree this information could be published/

                              Yes

Organisation & person completing the questionnaire

•	Formal name of organisation:
•	Istituto centrale per il Catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (ICCU)

•	Type of organisation: Governmental organisation

•	Field of action: Library

•	Address: viale Castro Pretorio 105 Roma

•	Name of director: Anna Maria Maiorano Mandillo (officiating director)

•	Name and role of person completing the questionnaire: Claudia Leoncini, head of Laboratorio per la bibliografia retrospettiva

•	Tel: 0039-064989496

•	Fax: 0039-064959292

•	Web site: http://www.iccu.sbn.it

•	E-mail: c.leoncini@iccu.sbn.it

Date: 29.04.2002