Strategy for developing digital services: EHRIS digitization project

Abstract

This master's thesis focuses on the development of a strategy for aninformation service in the area of digitization of cultural heritage andresearch, with a web based platform as implementation of the strategy. Viathe platform, digital collections and research are presented and shared.Services around the platform are provided. Support activities comprise thewhole chain of digitization, from digitization to archival of the digitizedobjects. The information service aims for a new approach to combine ICT andestablished research; research and industrial practice were combined andcooperation of participants from various backgrounds was enabled. Thestrategy and organization of such information service was described using a“quality management system”, standard ISO 9001. The development of theplatform followed engineering practices. A guideline for the platform wasestablished as part of the quality management system. On the platform, initialcollections were encoded by the humanities' text encoding standard TEI, thatbases on XML, and analysis with them were done.