Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the many challenges at various stages of the digital object lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and facilitate use and […]
Like Jeopardy!, I want to tell you the answer before I get to the question. Following a newspaper digitization and markup standard helps us plan for the future and makes it easier for us to work with vendors, open-source software, […]
Archival and Cataloging Procedures Photos, manuscripts and other objects are selected from Oviatt Library Special Collections & Archives or non-CSUN repositories http://digital-library.csun.edu/Guidelines/Workflow.html
The South Carolina State Library is now digitizing collections of state documents for its digital library, powered by DSpace. The digital library will be available online soon. Below are instructions used by staff members to scan, edit, quality control, catalog, […]
Converting documents, text, images, and sound files to digital and/or machine-readable formats is a prerequisite for many digital humanities projects. Digitization is the process of capturing analog materials as digital images. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs “read” these images and […]
I had the great opportunity of attending the Association of Moving Image Archivists annual meeting and discovered a few things. First, Cornell University Library is at a good place in developing an audiovisual preservation workflow. With an established AV digitization […]
The Fedora project uses Git, GitHub, and pull-requests for our development. Basically, this process is as follows: Setup your GitHub account, fork our GitHub repository, and create a local git repository – This is done just once! Work an issue […]
Best Practices for the Digital Conversion of Dynamic Media Stephen Naron David Walls Molly Wheeler What was once described as audiovisual collections is now frequently referred to as “dynamic media.” When electronic media entered the world of art exhibits, the […]
This digitisation workflow is designed as a practical and useable guide, containing both the steps to follow and the technical parameters for the digitisation of contemporary artworks and contextual documents. Its aim is to produce a set of guidelines that […]
spreads is a tool that aims to streamline your book scanning workflow. It takes care of every step: Setting up your capturing devices, handling the capturing process, downloading the images to your machine, post-processing them and finally assembling a variety […]