Digitization Handbook
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Introduction
The Digitization Handbook outlines the procedures and technical specifications used to digitize archival and special collections held by the Dalhousie Libraries.
Terms in the Handbook are defined in the Dalhousie Libraries' Documentation Wiki Glossary.
Documentation
- Introduction
- Basic digitization workflow
- Digitization facilities
- Section 2.0 - Standard size textual records
- Section 3.0 - Books, journals, and other bound multi-page items
- Section 4.0 - Maps, technical drawings, posters, and other oversize documents
- Section 5.0 - Photographic prints
- Section 6.0 - Photographic slides
- Section 8.0 - Glass plate negatives
- Section 9.0 - Outsourced digitization of audiovisual items
- Section 11.0 - Video tape
- Section 17.0 - Herbarium specimens
- Appendix A - Quality Control
- Appendix B - Guiding principles for file naming and file organization
- Appendix C - Technical specifications for "master" files
- Data transfer services