by the University Library, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Best Practices for Creating Digital Collections, includes the following: 1.0 File Formats 2.0 Directory Structure and File Naming 3.0 Digital Imaging 4.0 Newspaper Digitization 5.0 Optical Character Recognition 6.0 PDF Creation […]
by Kelley F. Rowan, Florida International University This presentation was given at the FLVC regional conference at Broward College on May 7, 2015 and introduced scanning, processing, record creation, dissemination, and preservation in FIU Libraries’ Digital Collections Center. The main […]
by Kelley F. Rowan, Florida International University This presentation was given at the Panhandle Library Access Network’s (PLAN) Innovation Conference: Digitization- Preserving the Past for the Future Conference on August 14th, 2015. The presentation uses a specific collection of directories […]
Converting documents, text, images, and sound files to digital and/or machine-readable formats is a prerequisite for many digital humanities projects. Digitization is the process of capturing analog materials as digital images. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs “read” these images and […]