Mersey gateway case study
From Digipedia
Mersey Gateway is part of the Port Cities consortium, formed as part of the £50M New Opportunities Fund Digitisation of Learning Materials programme which ran from 1999 - 2002, exploring the maritime history and heritage of key ports in England. Mersey Gateway is a partnership led by Liverpool Libraries and Archives Service working with a range of other organisations in the area drawn from the cultural sector. It shows how collections which are dispersed physically can be brought together via the web and the synergies between them explored in creative ways, enabling co-operative collection development across institutions.
The site also includes practical information about how and why the partners decided which materials were to be included on the website, how the digitisation process was carried out, what constraints there were and the technical standards used.