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Digitization
CHIN has brought together key digitization resources in tutorials, best practices and software information. Find helpful information and tips that you and your colleagues can use as you move to digitize your museum's collections—or update your current digital collections.
Digital Photography and Digitization of Museum Collections
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Digital Photography Course providing highly detailed information about every stage of digital photography and scanning of cultural artefacts.
An Introduction to Free and Open Source Software for Museums
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This resource explains the difference between free and open source technologies, and some of the factors to take into account when considering the adoption of FOSS software for museums.
An Introduction | Digital Asset Management and Museums
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This page explains what digital assets are and provides information on how museums can manage their digital assets and about the available management systems.
Horizon Zero
Horizon Zero
HorizonZero: a unique online space for digital art, ideas, and culture.
Throughout its three-year lifespan, the HorizonZero project dedicated itself to opening the developing field of new media to the larger realm of Canadian culture, by building new audiences, engaging cultural and ethnic diversity, and fostering dialogues between new media practitioners and their audiences. The objective: to commission fresh Canadian new media content; to promote and disseminate Canadian talent in digital arts and culture, both nationally and worldwide; and to facilitate dialogue and innovation in the converging fields of science, technology, media arts, and research.
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
This site is a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner. Recognizing that the effort would require specialized expertise, two separate working groups were formed with the possibility that more tightly focused groups might be necessary as the work progressed. The Federal Agencies Still Image Digitization Working Group will concentrate its efforts on image content such as books, manuscripts, maps, and photographic prints and negatives. The Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group is focusing its work on sound, video, and motion picture film.
The group initially formed under the auspices of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), a program initiated by Congress in December 2000 to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve digital content. Federal agencies represented on NDIIPP's National Digital Strategy Advisory Board formed the initial core of the group's membership.
Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures
Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures
What challenges will society and museums face in the next quarter-century? How will the demographic profile of America change between now and 2034? How will energy and infrastructure costs affect the sustainability of museums? What are the likely impacts of today's educational and regulatory priorities? What will Web 3.0 - or 5.0 or 6.0 - look like? Will the "real" survive the assault of the "virtual"? Will the number of leisure-time alternatives continue to grow? Will the lines between work and leisure, public and private, continue to blur? Most importantly, how will museums face these challenges and shape the future they will have to inhabit?
To find out, the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) commissioned this discussion paper on social and cultural trends and their potential effect on museums. The report was prepared by James Chung, Susie Wilkening and the staff of Reach Advisors - a marketing strategy and research firm with extensive experience in the museum field - in consultation with CFM staff and outside experts.
This paper is designed to be a catalyst - a fact-based platform for further exploration, and refinement rather than the final word on museum trends. In that spirit, CFM will host discussions on the paper online and at the 2009 AAM Annual Meeting in Philadelphia and a scenario-planning session led by a prominent futurist.
BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices, Version 2.0
BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices, Version 2.0
From the Document: "BCR is pleased to make available the 2008 version of BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices. It is intended to serve as a guide for practitioners in cultural heritage institutions that seek to create images from physical objects. Originally published by the Colorado Digitization Program in 2003 as the Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices, this updated version reflects the many changes that have occurred in the field during the last five years."
DRAMBORA - Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment
DRAMBORA - Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment
From the Web site / du site W3: "Developed jointly by the Digital curation Centre (DCC) and Digital Preservation Europe (DPE), the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) represents the main intellectual outcome of a period of pilot repository audits undertaken by the DCC throughout 2006 and 2007. It presents a methodology for self-assessment, encouraging organisations to establish a comprehensive self-awareness of their objectives, activities and assets before identifying, assessing and managing the risks implicit within their organisation."
International Journal of Digital Curation
International Journal of Digital Curation
From the website / du site W3: "The IJDC is entirely devoted to papers, articles and news items on curation of digital objects and related issues. The journal is published in electronic form, two times a year."
Microfilmed Newspapers: Selection for Digitization Success
Microfilmed Newspapers: Selection for Digitization Success
"Microfilmed Newspapers: Selection for Digitization Success an OCLC .ppt presentation."
Lessons Learned from Digitisation Projects
Lessons Learned from Digitisation Projects
This paper provides a selection of lessons that have emerged from various digitisation projects. The list does not claim to be exhaustive, but should provide some insight into issues commonly encountered by digitisation projects and the staff who work on them.
Technology Watch Reports
Technology Watch Reports
The DigiCULT Technology Watch Report is a major annual volume, covering six technologies expected to have a substantial impact on the future of cultural heritage projects, professionals working in the sector, and approaches to cultural materials. Their primary aim is to give a solid and impartial grounding in new and developing technologies to those without the time or the IT confidence to gain an independent familiarity, together with a view of the changing technological and methodological landscapes. NB Most recent: 2004.
How Much Information?
How Much Information?
From the Web site: "This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest."
MICHAEL-UK: Multicultural Inventory of Heritage in Europe
MICHAEL-UK: Multicultural Inventory of Heritage in Europe
From the Web site / du site W3 : "Our aim is to offer you simple and quick access to the rich variety of digital material from UK museums, libraries and archives. The online catalogue describes digital collections and associated services or multimedia productions (such as websites, electronic learning resources and CDs). Whether you are interested in Fine Art or History, the Middle Ages or the Victorians, your local area or the collections that have been digitised by your local cultural institutions, MICHAEL-UK can help you to find out what is available and how to see it."
Saskatchewan Digital Alliance (SDA)
Saskatchewan Digital Alliance (SDA)
The Saskatchewan Digital Alliance is a group established by the Multitype Library Board to facilitate greater
digitization of library resources and collections in the province. Our vision is to develop a locus of knowledge and support that enables the public to find, locate, and utilize Saskatchewan knowledge and information created through co-operative Saskatchewan digitization initiatives.
Louise Renaud and Kathleen Brosseau Share Digitization Recommendations
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Louise Renaud and Kathleen Brosseau share digitization recommendations and guidelines in place at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Dr. Qingqiao You | Digital Cultural Heritage Practice and Exploration
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Dr. Qingqiao You talks about digital cultural heritage practice and exploration and ways in which information technologies are applied in this regard.
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Standards for Cultural Heritage Digitization Projects
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative Standards for Cultural Heritage Digitization Projects
NB Copy and paste the URL into the address bar of a web page (browser) in order to open the document.
TechSoup
TechSoup
From the web site: "Powered by CompuMentor, one of the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit technology assistance agencies, TechSoup.org offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support."
How to Engage Audiences Through Innovative Technologies
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Audio recordings, transcripts, and slides of the 2007 digital Cultural Content forum presentations given by leaders exploring the use of new technologies to engage audiences.
Scan and Artifact Photography | Digitization Standards for the CMCC
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A collection of basic guidelines for improving digitization standards at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, which can be used by other institutions as a benchmark to build their own standards.
Managing Digital Assets in US Museums
Managing Digital Assets in US Museums
Includes: 1: Why Digital Asset Management? A Case Study; 2: Digital Image Asset Management at the National Gallery of Art (US); 3: In Pursuit of Efficiency: Traversing the Boundaries of a Collection Information System; Highlighted Web Site: Museum Computer Network; FAQ: The Missing Dimension in Web-based Museum Exhibitions: Obstacles to Adding Depth to Digital Data
Going Digital...
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An article originally published in the May-June 2006 issue of Muse magazine, discusses the steps to follow when undertaking a digitization project, visitor expectations and other benefits.
Digital Audio Best Practice Version 2.1
Digital Audio Best Practice Version 2.1
This document provides guidelines and a set of best practices for cultural heritage institutions interested in converting analog audio recordings to digital formats.
LOCKSS
LOCKSS
LOCKSS (for "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") is open source software that provides librarians with an easy and inexpensive way to collect, store, preserve, and provide access to their own, local copy of authorized content they purchase. Running on standard desktop hardware and requiring almost no technical administration, LOCKSS converts a personal computer into a digital preservation appliance, creating low-cost, persistent, accessible copies of e-journal content as it is published. Since pages in these appliances are never flushed, the local community's access to that content is safeguarded. Accuracy and completeness of LOCKSS appliances is assured through a robust and secure, peer-to-peer polling and reputation system.
Hardware and Software
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Links to sites which give up-to-date reviews on Colour Management Systems and Colour Calibration; Digital Cameras; Graphic Software; Image and Digital Management Systems; Printers and Scanners.
Digitization Fundamentals
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This 45-minute tutorial will provide heritage and cultural institution professionals with information on digitization fundamentals, such as how to create digital images and a digital file.
Photoshop
Photoshop
Tips and tutorials on the use of photoshop.
National Association of Photoshop Professionals
National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Photoshop TV Episodes. Latest news and Photoshop techniques.
Rhizome
Rhizome
From the website / du site W3 : "Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, our website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Our programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. We support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Our organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture."
Good Practice Guide for Developers of Cultural Heritage Web Services
Good Practice Guide for Developers of Cultural Heritage Web Services
This guidebook provides advice on standards and best practices to organisations involved in the development of cultural heritage Web services. The content of the guidebook is based on the advice provided by the NOF-digitise Technical Advisory Service (and others) to projects funded by the NOF-digitise programme.
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital imaging tutorial
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital imaging tutorial
From the Web site: "This tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative. You will find here up-to-date technical information, formulas, and reality checks, designed to test your level of understanding."
Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American art museums
Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American art museums
**Taken from the description**
"This study explores the cost and policy models adapted by US arts museums in arriving at pricing structures for delivering imaging and rights services. It examines the new market realities and opportunities cultural institutions face due to the transition to digital collections.
One hundred US art museums were surveyed and in-depth interviews were carried out with 20 museums."
Understanding Recordable & Rewritable DVD
Understanding Recordable & Rewritable DVD
A comprehensive guide to Recordable and Rewritable DVD technologies encompasing DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. Includes information on all aspects including formats, compatibility, capacity, copy protection, labeling, handling, storage, longevity, manufacturing and further resources
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) creates connections and collaborations across art, culture, science and technology. It is Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with science and technology, creating opportunities for innovation, research and development both nationally and internationally."
Introduction to Creating Digital Resources
Introduction to Creating Digital Resources
From the Web site / du site W3 : "This guide introduces key issues that anyone planning to create a digital resource for research, learning or teaching in the arts and humanities should consider."
Good Practice Handbook (for digitisation projects)
Good Practice Handbook (for digitisation projects)
This document is a result of the Minerva project's good practice working group (WP 6). It presents a practical handbook to the estblishment, execution and management of digitisation projects, with particular focus on the cultural area (libraries, museums, archives). The target audience of this handbook is teams within and across cultural institutions who are contemplating, or already executing, digitisation projects.
Technical data and Preservation needs
Technical data and Preservation needs
"Presentation :Technical data and Preservation needs Catherine Lupovici Head, Digital Library Department Network and Services Direction Bibliothèque nationale Paris France"
Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art
Documentation Standards in Contemporary Art
In her fellowship paper, Anne Bénichou presents guiding principles and vocabulary for the classification of contemporary works of art. This is a specialized vocabulary, designed to be of use to specialists documenting contemporary art, an art form that poses many documentation challenges owing to its continuously evolving nature.
Video Conferencing Cookbook, version 4.0
Video Conferencing Cookbook, version 4.0
From the Web site: "The early or novice user will find the first six sections (Introduction, Applications, Getting Started, Practical Steps, Network Requirements, and Selecting and Tuning your PC) of this cookbook useful. They will introduce you to ways to use video conferencing and tell you how to get started.
More advanced users of video conferencing will probably find the next two sections (Advanced Functionality and Management and Related Topics) more interesting. They will tell you how to better evaluate components and how to move on to larger conference groups."
Good practices in digitisation
Good practices in digitisation
From the Web site / du site Web : "MINERVA is collecting a list of good practices in digitisation, according to the ten categories selected in the Good Practice Handbook, edited by the MINERVA Working group 6 - Identification of good practices and competence centres.
Here, you find the list of good practices already approved, followed by the date of approval by the NRG (between square brackets, example [YYMMDD] )and the filled in compilation form containing the description of the good practice and lessons learned."
MINERVA (Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in Digitisation)
MINERVA (Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in Digitisation)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "MINERVA is a network of Member States' Ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content for creating an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation."
MINERVA-list
MINERVA-list
From the Web site / du site W3 : "MINERVA has created a discussion list on digitisation themes in English language. The list is open to all people interested on the subject.
To subscribe:
You can subscribe using your e-mail.
Send a message to mdaemon@amitie.it, leaving the subject blank and write in the area of the text the following message:
SUBSCRIBE minervalist xxx@yyy (to add a name)
UNSUBSCRIBE minervalist xxx@yyy (to cancel a name)
To send messages:
After subscription, if you want to send a message to the list, write to minervalist@amitie.it."
Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects | Capture Your Collections
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An online training course focused on those working in or with museums on planning and implementing digitization projects from their collections.
Digital Cultural Content Forum (DCCF)
Digital Cultural Content Forum (DCCF)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "The Cultural Content Forum exists to harness expertise and forge consensus amongst agencies worldwide engaged in setting policy for the digitisation and online delivery of our global cultural heritage."
A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns
From the Web site / du site W3 : "In 2002, CLIR commissioned a survey of North American-based digital cultural heritage initiatives (DCHIs). The purpose of the survey was to identify the scope, financing, organizational structure, and sustainability of DCHIs. To gain a funder's perspective on these initiatives, the survey also included a few public and private funding organizations that support projects with a digital cultural heritage component. The survey was a preliminary step in a larger effort aimed at developing recommendations for a coordinated strategy to sustain and strengthen digital cultural heritage initiatives and their by-products.
Survey results and recommendations are in this report."
Available for purchase, or online in full text or PDF.
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs."
Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
From the Web site / du site W3 : "The Society for Imaging Science and Technology is an international non-profit organization whose goal is to keep members aware of the latest scientific and technological developments in the field of imaging through conferences, journals and other publications. We focus on imaging in all its aspects, with particular emphasis on silver halide, digital printing, electronic imaging, photofinishing, image preservation, image assessment, pre-press technologies and hybrid imaging systems."
Information Longevity
Information Longevity
"... links to resources on Digital Longevity (including several articles he's [H. Besser] written on subtopics like preserving electronic art, and longevity of moving image material) ."
Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources
Towards a Semantic Web for Heritage Resources
From the Web site: "This third Thematic Issue addresses the questions: What is the Semantic Web? What will it do for heritage institutions? And what is the role of certain languages, in particular XML and RDF?"
