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 INDICE: Introduction; Getting started; Hardware; Software; The digitization process; Collaboration: ways of working together; Funding; Putting collections online; Preservation planning.
- ISBN: 978-1-84334-074-4
- Editorial: Chandos Publishing
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 30/08/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés