Digitization Resources
Introduction to Workflows Videos
1. Watch the videos online:
or
2. Download these movies to your computer:
Digitization Workflows
- "Digitisation Workflow and Guidelines" for the CHARTER Project, University of Exeter. (PDF document)
- Includes topics on metadata, digitization requirements and standards, and distribution.
Metadata and Describing Content
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- Introduction to Dublin Core - a slideshow presentation on Dublin Core basics. By Richard Wisneski, Virginia Dressler. Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University.
- An example implementation of Dublin Core metadata
- Metadata: Data With a Purpose- A primer explaining metadata and its importance to document-like data. By Karen Coyle.
Copyright
- Library Digitization Projects and Copyright - Summary of institution's options for permissions and copyright. Pertains mostly to USA based organizations.
- Copyright Policies for Collection Managers - Concise breakdown of how to obtain permissions, a check list for fair use, and a list of dates for public domain content.
Digital Content Management
- Wikipedia: Digital asset management
- Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators
- Software for resource management: dspace, ResourceSpace,Razuna
Digitization Technology
- Automatic scanners - Kirtas Technologies, Kirtas
- Beseler Photographic Equipment - copy stands for photographing materials.
- Flatbed scanners. The following manufacturers make scanners of varying speeds and sizes: Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, and HP.
- Digital cameras: almost any digital camera will do as long as the resolution is high (greater than 10MP is generally enough) and the camera is mounted properly.
Post Processing Images
- Free tools: Paint.net, GIMP
- Paid tools: Corel Paintshop Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator, Apple iLife
OCR
- Paid tools: Adobe Acrobat, Nuance Omnipage
- Free Online Tools: Google Docs / Google Drive, i2OCR
- Free Desktop Tools: OpenOCR, gImageReader