Principles and Guidelines
The Oxford Digital Library plans to build up a significant set of digital resources for local and remote online access. Like traditional collection development long-term sustainability and permanent availability are major goals for the Oxford Digital Library. Therefore the use of standards in the digital conversion process and for the description of digital resources will be essential for projects funded through and supported by ODL.
With respect to the overarching remit of ODL as a "Hybrid Library" digital resources provided by ODL will have to be compatible with that used in traditional libraries, at least to the extent of allowing integrated searching across distributed repositories.
The Oxford Digital Library provides technical expertise and experience for digital projects over the planning process and offers advice throughout the entire project process. Guidelines have already been published for best practices in metadata schemes; future guidelines will cover the digital conversion process, and metadata capture.