• What is your research question?  What's the story you're trying to tell?
• What is the purpose of the exhibit or project? Examples include a class assignment, research project, exhibit?
• How long will it be available on the web? What will you do with it after you're finished?
• Who is your audience?
• How will you answer the research question or tell the story? Examples include building digital exhibits, text mining, plotting texts and images on a map, tracking changes or developments over time using a timeline, and interactive games.

• Do you have rights to use materials from the web or to publish digitized items?
• Are the items covered by copyright or are they in the public domain?
• Does your use of the items falls within Fair Use?
• Do you have enough information to cite and attribute your sources?

Answers have implications for the inventory, digitization, and access phases of the project.

Workshop materials

• Project Planning Checklist
• Hands-On Exercise
• Presentation (PDF)

Presented during the:

Digital Exhibit Building Symposium
September 14, 2016
McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz

• What primary and secondary sources will be displayed in the exhibit or project and how will you obtain them?
• Is the material coming from the web?
• Are you creating your own material for display?  
• Are you digitizing previously published items?

Answers have implications for the inventory, digitization, access, and preservation phases of the project.

• Public Domain Slider
• Fair Use Evaluator
• Exceptions for Instructors eTool
• Copyright Genie

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