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Phase 3 -- Produce the digital collection and access aids
Primary Participants:
Technical Processing Staff from Collection Divisions
NDLP Digital Conversion Coordinator
NDLP Finding Aid and Description Coordinator
Digitizing contractor
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Delve deeper for further discussion of:
- Reproduction
Quality Issues in a Digital Library System:
Observations on
the Reproduction of Various Library and Archival Material Formats for
Access and Preservation (Carl Fleischhauer & Ricky Erway, December
1992) is one of three American Memory White Papers, which
describe experience gained during the American Memory Project.
This paper
discusses the dichotomous need for high-resolution digital reproductions
as a potential
preservation format and for lower-resolution versions to provide broad
access.
- Elements
of Digital Archive Collections: Technical Overview and Format Description
(Carl Fleischhauer, October 1994) is another American
Memory White Paper. It summarizes the choices made for formats and
specifications for the digitized versions of textual materials, color or
grayscale images, bitonal images, recorded sound, and video. These
choices are reconsidered for new collections as technology advances and
new standards emerge, but the approach still holds as of early
1996.
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Frameworks and Finding Aids: Organizing Digital Archival Collections
(Carl Fleischhauer, 1994), another American Memory White Paper,
discusses the choices of access framework for a digital collection.
- Steps in the Digitization
Process
(Carl Fleischhauer & Helena Zinkham) lists the steps in
preparing a collection for digitization in more
detail, emphasizing preparation of the materials, management of a
digitization contract, and quality
control, all very important aspects of the process. Since these
aspects do not
relate directly to the technical framework on which this documentation
focuses, those steps have not all been detailed here. The steps fall
mainly into the planning and production phases.
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