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Creating digital collections A practical guide - UniSA Library search

Libraries recognize the importance of digitizing archival material to improve access to and preservation of their special collections.

Creating Digital Collections: A Practical Guide - Emerald Insight

Computers are playing an increasingly important role in people's lives. As this happens, the significance of “digital collections” is also becoming more ...

Building a Workflow to Scale Up Your Digital Collections

Scale up your digitization by taking things one step at a time. First: check that your catalog or inventory is consistent and accurate.

Create a Digital Library | Tips & Tricks from Anderson Archival

Scanning then, digitally cleaning and watermarking those scans begins the digital preservation process. Once complete, optical character recognition (OCR) and ...

Introduction to Archival Research: Digital collections

Digital collections are usually smaller, curated portions of material from larger collections. · These websites themselves may not allow direct ...

Digital Content and Collections | University of Michigan Library

We digitize materials, prepare and ingest digital content into repositories, and create, host, and maintain digital collections.

Digitizing Collections - Smithsonian Institution Archives

Access derivatives are created from the digital preservation masters to fulfill reference requests and public interest. Digitization Specifications. Images: ...

Digital collections - Special Collections - Williams College

archives, records, and manuscript materials must be processed and have a resource record in ArchivesSpace, though item-level metadata may be created as part of ...

Processing Digital Collection Content | Access - Library of Congress

... Library's inventory and storage systems, and finally making the content accessible. In this context, "processing" represents the series of activities ...

Strategies for Building Digitized Collections • CLIR

In this report, Abby Smith synthesizes the nearly 10 years' experience that libraries have had digitizing items from their rare, special, and general ...

Personal Digital Archiving | Digital Preservation - Library of Congress

... make it available. Take the quiz. Learn interesting facts! Did you know that digital materials can be more difficult to preserve than physical materials?

How to make my existing digital collections more accessible and ...

You want your walkthroughs as close as possible to the games while you're playing them. Your want your map of Middle Earth in your Books folder, ...

Cornell University Library Grants Program for Digital Collections

Creating new digital collections from Library, departmental, faculty, or graduate student-held resources that are regularly used in teaching or research ...

Digital Content Policies | Library Digital Collections | UC San Diego ...

The Library selectively plans and engages in digitization projects, creating digital surrogates of Library-owned materials via scanning or reformatting.

Creating Digital Collections: Museum Content and the Public

The internet is a valuable asset for making cultural heritage accessible to a broader audience, and in recent years many museums have ...

Creating a Digital Museum: A Process Overview - DLF

In the Fall of 2012, the Digital Collections Center at Furman University Libraries embarked on an ambitious digital project: The Peter Wexler ...

Getting Started - Digital Preservation Handbook

It is, therefore, important to create a verifiable list of files in each collection. These lists should likely contain information such as file names, locations ...

GETTING STARTED WITH DIGITAL COLLECTIONS - ALA Store

In the early years of digital collection building, the emphasis was almost exclusively on access: to put digital materials online so they can be found and used, ...

Sharing digital collections: A guide for galleries, libraries, archives ...

Galleries, libraries, archives and museums can make it easier for people to find and use their digital collections — and can so enrich the lives of a wider ...

The Essentials for a Discoverable Digital Collection - YouTube

... Archives are Always Essential, a webinar: https://youtu.be/uXWtOtvsIT8 Breaking with Tradition: Creating Connections in the Archives with ...