Digitizing Historical Materials
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Why do we digitize materials?
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What are the different ways that we can digitize?
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What do we do with the files?
Scanning
- Scan samples
- Scan quality sample
- 72 color
- 300 color
- 600 color
- Sizes:
resolution 100 300 600 24 bit color 2.5 MB 22 MB 90 MB LC Glass Negative Scanning (800dpi)
Cell Phone Camera Apps
- Camera 360 (tripod) Android | IPhone
- CamScanner PDF Creator Android | IPhone
Manipulating images
Digitizing Texts
- Transcription
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
- Keywords and Metadata
Quality Control
- Proofreading images to make sure they are complete, cropped well, color accurate
- Proofreading transcriptions according to guidelines
- Proofreading metadata and descriptions
Digitizing Lab!
- We have 10 historical items.
- Using your phone (not optimal, but…) digitize each item and save on your computer
- Pass each folder to the next person, until you have done all ten.
- If you think that the image(s) needs to be manipulated, create a copy of the file and edit it to improve it.
- Post them on Basecamp as a folder in Docs & Files, and take any notes needed.
- We will be using these images in class on Thursday.