The digital lab has gained much experience in the creation and
management of digital assets. Over the last four years, it has built
sustainable digital collections based on its mission to preserve themand to ensure their accessibility for the long term. However, creation
and management of sustainable digital assets is only one side of
digitization, the other is users’ reactions to digital collections. Since
early 2009, DigiTool generates reliable usage statistics which the lab
started to analyze. At the same time, the lab also joined the photosharing
website Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/center_for_
jewish_history) and made user surveys available in CJH Digital
Collections to obtain feedback