Consulting & Research
At Born-Digital, we combine experience developing Open Source digital collections infrastructure with expertise in information architecture, metadata modeling, user experience, and strategic planning. Our combined focus on technical solutions and real-world applications makes us the ideal partner to develop your digital collections strategy. We offer a suite of consulting services to ensure you and your stakeholders get the most out of your digital platforms and collections. We combine and tailor these activities and deliverables to meet your budget, timeline, and needs.
A Strategic Approach To Digital Collections Stewardship
Born-Digital’s library consulting team combines decades of experience in digital collections, user research, and strategic planning. We empower you with insights and action plans to make the most of your digital collections, digital scholarship initiatives, and research data management activities. Where applicable, our consultants work closely with our in-house team of experienced developers to ensure that all projects blend outstanding results and technical integrity.
We tailor consulting projects to meet your needs in the following areas.
Building service models for digital scholarship, digital collections, and research data services
Identify opportunities to support research communities on and off campus
Develop strategies for intra- and inter-institutional collaboration
Build a nuanced understanding of stakeholder needs
Enhancing discoverability, visibility, and usability of digital collections
Align your institutional mission with your repository content
Create engaging site content that complements and enhances your unique collections
Ensure that aggregators and search engines properly index your content
Optimize your metadata for use with your digital repository software
Deliver the best possible user experience for all visitors regardless of access method
Evaluate your repository’s compliance with web accessibility standards
Promoting stakeholder engagement and use and measuring impact
Package and promote your content so that it reaches your key stakeholders
Encourage faculty and student deposits to your institutional repository
Leverage web analytics software to learn how users find and use your content
Collect user stories and case studies that demonstrate the impact of your collections
Articulate the value of your digital collections for your campus community and beyond
Integrating systems
Efficiently manage digital assets distributed across multiple platforms
Integrate user-facing and preservation repositories