Digitisation Resources

• A Few Scanning Tips: a very useful site with some good information for all levels
  http://scantips.com/
• BEAGRIE, N. AND GREENSTEIN, D. (1998). Managing Digital Collections: AHDS Policies, Standards and Practices. Arts and Humanities Data Service.
  http://ahds.ac.uk/public/srg.html
• BESSER, H. AND TRANT, J. (1995). Introduction to Imaging. Los Angeles: The Getty Information Institute, The Getty Center.
  http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introimages/index.html
• BESSER, H. (1997). Procedures and Practices for Scanning. Canadian Heritage Information Network.
  http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/Scanning/
• Harvard Digitization Guidelines
  http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/reformatting_image.html
• Harvard Selection for Digitizing (bibliography)
  http://preserve.harvard.edu/bibliographies/selection.html
• Columbia University Libraries - Oversized Color Images Project: Addressing Issues of Preservation and Access
  http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/
• Columbia University Libraries, 1997. 'Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging Projects'
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/criteria
• Copyright Law in the Digital World - R. Baron article
  http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/ttm/TTM.htm
• Day, M. 1997. 'Metadata for Preservation', CEDARS Access Issues Working Group
  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cedars/AIW01.html
• ESTER, M., 1996. Digital Image Collections: Issues and Practice. Washington DC: Commission on Preservation and Access.
  
• Digitisation of Library Materials: Report of the Concentration Meeting & Workshop,Luxembourg, 14.12.99
  http://www.echo.lu/digicult/en/digit.pdf
• EU DLM Guidelines on best practices for using electronic information
  http://www2.echo.lu/dlm/en/gdlines.html
• Image Permanence Institute - Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital
  Imageshttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ipirpt.html
• Kenney, A. R. 1998. 'Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project 1994-1996
  http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/com/comfin.html
• Kiernan, K. `Digital Preservation, Restoration, and Dissemination of Medieval Manuscripts'
  http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm
• Library of Congress Manuscript Digitisation Demonstration Project, Final Report by Sharpe, Louis, H., Ott, Michael D., Fleischhauer, C. 1998
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/pictel/pictel.pdf or http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/pictel/index.html
• OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report (Dublin Core)
  http://www.oclc.org:5046/oclc/research/conferences/metadata/dublin_core_report.html
• Oppenheim, C. 1997, 'Copyright in the electronic age'. UNESCO World Information Report. Unesco, Paris
  http://www.unesco.org/webworld/com_inf_reports/wirenglish/chap26.pdf
• OSTROW, S. E., 1998. Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet, [online]. Commission on Preservation and Access, Council on Library and Information Resources.
  http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/ostrow/pub71.html
• Parry, D. 1998. Virtually New - Creating the Digital Collection: a review of digitisation projects in local authority libraries and archives.
  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/
• Puglia, S. 1999. 'Creating Permanent and Durable Information: Physical Media and Storage Standards'
  http://tps.cr.nps.gov/crm/archive/22-2/22-02-10.pdf
• Research Library Group Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata
  http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html
• Schantz, H. F. 1996. 'Optical Character Recognition -- The Mature Technology with the Brilliant Future'
  http://www.aiim.org/infoservices/index.html
• Sharpe, Louis, H., Ott, Michael D., Fleischhauer, C. 1998. Library of Congress Manuscript Digitisation Demonstration Project
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammen/pictel/pictel.pdf
• Smith, A.1999. 'Why Digitize?', Washington D.C., Council on Library and Information Resources.
  http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html
• Structured Glossary of Technical Terms - Commission for Preservation & Access
  http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/lynn/index.html
• Tanner, S., and Robinson, B. 1998. JISC Image Digitisation Initiative (JIDI): Feasibility Study (Final Report)
  http://heds.herts.ac.uk/Guidance/JIDI_fs.pdf
• Thompson, C. 1997. 'OCR/ICR Accuracy and Acceptance - What Does it Mean?'
  http://www.aiim.org/infoservices/index.html