DIGITAL CONSULTING & PRODUCTION SERVICES
Digital Consulting and Production Services (DCAPS) is comprised of associated services necessary to ensure cost-effective planning, creation, management, use, and preservation for digital collections. It offers a suite of digital asset management services supporting digital resource development from feasibility assessment to full-scale production. DCAPS represents a new service model for defining functional support activities involved in creating and managing digital collections. From an operational perspective it provides a single point of entry to distributed services, as the components of the model are based on collaborations with various CUL service providers. It also provides a business model to designate means necessary to support these activities through allocations, partnerships, grants, and other revenues.