Digitization Guidelines for Small Historical Institutions and ...

Large libraries, archives or historical societies may attempt to digitize all or most of their collections, while small institutions may only wish to digitize ...

Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials

... agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) ... Digitization Objectives | Digital Imaging ...

Digital preservation recommendations for small museums

Digital preservation standards exist and are well established. But some of the requirements laid out in these standards are beyond the resources of smaller ...

Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials

By conforming to the guidelines described by the FADGI program we believe values such as accuracy, integrity, and fidelity to the historic ...

Digitization Guidelines

Digitization Overview · Unpack materials · Assess for condition issues, presence of metadata · Separate out materials by format and/or subject matter · Decide which ...

Digitization Best Practices - Digitization Services - Research Guides

The digitization of materials in digital collections must follow appropriate digitization standards. This page offers an introduction to ...

Historical Records Scanning and Preservation: Archiving The Past

To ensure the longevity and usability of digital archives, it is essential to follow established archiving and preservation standards. These ...

Basic Guidelines and Best Practices for Digitization Projects

Online access will make the material widely available for use without damage to the historic originals.” Page 4. John P. Harrington Collection web portal.

Session 7: Reformatting and Digitization - NEDCC

knowing where to look for current standards and guidelines; · navigating the decision to set up in-house digitization operations vs. · creating digital objects ...

DIGITAL IMAGING FOR THE SMALL ORGANIZATION - VERSION 1.4

Digital Imaging for the Small Organization offers guidance to provide digital ... smaller institutions and collections that are planning/involved in digitization ...

Digitizing Historical Records Projects FAQs - National Archives

Such collections are eligible to apply and compete for a new NHPRC grant. We have number of great collections, but they are all relatively small ...

GUIDELINES FOR THE CREATION OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Aperture between f8-f11. A smaller aperture gives a better depth of field in the image (objects both near and far are in focus). White. Balance. Auto. If saving ...

Creating digital materials - Digital Preservation Handbook

This is a collaborative effort by US federal agencies to define common guidelines, methods, and practices for digitizing historical content. As part of this ...

Status of Technology and Digitization in the Nation's Museums and ...

While gaps existed between large and small institutions, basic technologies had ... Institutions would like information, training, and guidance on how to ...

Digitization - Preservation - LibGuides at American Library Association

This was followed by a transitional time during which recommended practice included microfilming for preservation and digitizing for access. At ...

Digitization Project Guidance - Wisconsin Historical Society

Once records are digitized it is tempting to keep them “forever” since they no longer take up physical space, and are, for the short-term, easy to manage.

Digital Collections - Sustaining Places

The National Archives guidelines for digitizing archival materials for electronic addresses topics like digital image capture, metadata, quality control, and ...

6.6 Preservation and Selection for Digitization - NEDCC

Selection for digitization shapes the online collections built by libraries, archives, historical societies, and other cultural heritage institutions.

Selecting Research Collections for Digitization-Full Report • CLIR

Decisions about what to digitize must first and foremost address the intellectual value of the original sources. We are likely to be able to convert only a ...

Digitization Standards and Practices | Anderson Archival

For many organizations, whether public or private, digitization is the means to provide access in new and expanded ways. Physical collections have too many ...