Starting a digitization center [electronic resource] / Cokie G. Anderson and David C. Maxwell.

Starting a Digitization Center provides a complete overview of the digitization process and how to set up a digitization center, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online. It covers: Essential steps and standards, acquiring the essentials needed for imaging/digitizing, in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ScienceDirect)
Main Author: Anderson, Cokie G.
Other Authors: Maxwell, David C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New Hampshire : Chandos Pub., 2004.
Series:Chandos information professional series.
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Summary:Starting a Digitization Center provides a complete overview of the digitization process and how to set up a digitization center, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online. It covers: Essential steps and standards, acquiring the essentials needed for imaging/digitizing, including equipment, software, hardware, personnel and housing, finding partners/collaborators, locating training and online resources, obtaining funding, setting up guidelines, formats, websites and putting collections online. Stresses the importance of collaboration, tips for finding partners and working with othersServes as a practical handbook and it acts as a manual, and guides readers to finding more advanced resourcesFocuses on creating a good digitisation center/project with extremely limited funds and/or low budget.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 195 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781780630663
1780630662
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.