Starting a Digitization Center by Cokie Anderson and David Maxwell (Auth.)

By Cokie Anderson and David Maxwell (Auth.)

Beginning a Digitization heart offers a whole evaluate of the digitization procedure and the way to establish a digitization heart, from the earliest levels of improvement to placing collections on-line. It covers: crucial steps and criteria, buying the necessities wanted for imaging/digitizing, together with gear, software program, undefined, group of workers and housing, discovering partners/collaborators, finding education and on-line assets, acquiring investment, constructing directions, codecs, web pages and placing collections online.

  • Stresses the significance of collaboration, suggestions for locating companions and dealing with others
  • Serves as a pragmatic instruction manual and it acts as a handbook, and courses readers to discovering extra complex resources
  • Focuses on making a solid digitisation center/project with super constrained cash and/or low budget

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However, color TIFF capabilities on most digital cameras today only go as far as 16-bit color images. You need to have at least 24-bit color TIFF images for archival purposes. So, when looking for a digital camera, make sure that it supports the RAW image format, and if it has the ability to shoot TIFF images consider it a nice addition. A digital camera that supports the TIFF image format can usually take 8-bit lossless compression grayscale images in the TIFF mode, and the RAW format provides you with a way to 39 Starting a Digitization Center save RAW images as lossless TIFF images in color or black and white once you download them to your computer.

You can store large amounts of data on just one tape and purchase a few extra tapes and rotate them as needed. Plus, tapes can be used daily and last a long time before wearing out. Printer Printers are an indispensable tool and should have a place in your digitization center. The printer helps with editing and training purposes, and can be used when you find articles from websites and want to use them as a resource or reference. In addition, you will probably need to write letters occasionally, so having a printer for these purposes alone is worth it for your center.

FireWire is a highly recommended choice we suggest you consider when deciding which scanner interface to use for your digitization center. Scanner specifications Have you ever wondered what bits and dpi mean when it comes to scanners? If so, you are not alone. This information can sometimes be confusing and misleading. When looking at scanner specifications there are three important factors to consider: 36 ■ scan area; ■ optical resolution (dots per inch); ■ color depth (bits). Hardware Scan area We have already discussed scan area earlier in this chapter (81⁄2 ✕ 11, 81⁄2 ✕ 14 and 11 ✕ 17).

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