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 […]
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 […]
These instructions will outline the basic steps for uploading metadata and digital files to Omeka, individually, in batches, and via an OAI harvest.Omeka Metadata Uploading Guidelines
If you are interested in having your materials digitized and possibly hosted by U-M Library, this is the place to start. This workflow is for projects that originate from the University of Michigan Library print collections, University of Michigan departmental […]
This article examines the development, architecture, and future plans for the Workflow Management System, software developed by Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) to create and catalog digital objects for repository ingest and access. The Workflow Management System (WMS) was created as […]
This article presents a case study of the Submission Information Metadata Packaging (SIMP) tool developed at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. The Library designed this platform-independent tool to facilitate the deposit of descriptive metadata and derivative formats […]