Scanning and Digitization Information

• General Info and Background:

RLG DigiNews Bimonthly newletter with tons of good information. Archives are searchable.

• Projects Outside of Yale

Unesco/IFLA Directory of Digitized Collections
The Making of America II Testbed Project: A Digital Library Service Model
Preserving Cornell's Digital Image Collections
Harvard's Digital Initiative lots of interesting links here.
IFLA: Digital Libraries Resources and Projects extensive bibliography

• Technical Information

IA White Paper: Electronic Image Formats and Compression Algorithms
LSO: Pros and Cons of Image Graphic Formats

• Software

ImageMagick - Image Conversion and Manipulation Software
Debabelizer

• Hardware

Selecting a Scanner from RLG

• Guides/Tutorials

Cornell Digital Imaging Tutorial
Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging from the DLF/RLG
RLG Tools for Digital Imaging (worksheets, guidelines)
Scanning Project Resources from Mystic Seaport
Appendix E: Digitization Methods from Oxford University
Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions
Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers from LC
Berkeley SunSite Digital Imaging

• Listservs

Diglib
Imagelib

• Money
  

articles:
The Costs of Print, Fiche and Digital Access: The Early Canadiana Online Project
Substituting Images for Books by Michael Lesk
Digital to Microfilm Conversion (Anne Kenney)
Yale University Library's Project Open Book (Paul Conway)
The Costs of Digital Imaging Projects (Steven Puglia)
The Costs of Digital Image Distribution (Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita)
PADI-Costs a nice collections of links from the National Library of Australia

• Metadata

IFLA: Metadata

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