An Introduction to Digitisation
Objective
Understand the digitisation process, which includes:
- Managing the complete digitization cycle;
- Evaluating digitization options;
- Selecting strategies to meet your current and future needs;
- The steps and issues involved to collect, document, process and store digitized images and textual material on computers and to access digitised material for ongoing use.
The Digitization Cycle
- Evaluate
- Select
- Do
- Manage
Why Digitise?
- Store
- Viewing/Retrieval
- Manipulation
- Change into other forms
- Analysis
Sources of Pre-Digitised Materials
Software Options
Preparing to Digitise
- Quality of Original
- Material of Original
- Pre-Scan Steps
- Post-Scan Steps
- Pre-OCR Steps
OCR Exercise One
OCR Exercise Two
TAPoR Exercises
Links to Resources
Further Directions
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ShawnDay - 18 April 2007
