Image Capture: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
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Abstract
One of the most important stages in any digitisation project is to design and implement a consistent approach to capturing digital images. How an institution does this will to a large extent depend on what kind of material it wants to digitise, the aim for which it digitises, available funds and how scaleable the process needs to be. Historically, most text-based digitisation has been done by professional imaging specialists with more or less standard photographic tools and apparatus. Photography is still often the default method for digitally capturing high value material and unusual format items, although development work in this area continues. As more institutions become interested in mass digitisation, however, there has been a drive towards greater automation of the capture process to reduce costs and increase the volume of items processed, with the overall workflow becoming more integrated. To obtain the best outcomes, all the steps within the workflow and how they impact on each other need to be considered. The digitisation of newspapers has also improved over time, because of their size and the complexity of their physical make-up, newspapers have always been difficult to digitise directly from the source. Libraries and archives have thus taken to scanning newspaper images from microfilm. IMPACT presents a case study and recommendations on digitisation from microfilm later in this chapter.
Creator (organisation)
IMPACT Project
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IMPACT
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| Funder name | Awards |
Seventh Framework Programme | 215064 |
Publisher
European Commission