AvoinGLAM/Recommendations for digitizing images
This page is a draft guideline for non-institutional contributors for creating high quality digital assets for public use.
Before digitization
[edit]Researching the data about the object
[edit]- Record information in institutional context
- Rights information
- Provenance
- Content description
- Contextual information
- Information about the physical object
- Location data
Clearing rights
[edit]Grouping and prioritizing
[edit]Planning and checking the process and equipment
[edit]- Training
- Selecting the equipment
- Calibration of the equipment
Technical choices
[edit]Scanning vs photographing
[edit]File formats
[edit]Quality
[edit]Taking publishing channel requirements into account
Principles of openness
[edit]Knowledge is open if anyone is free to access, use, modify, and share it — subject, at most, to measures that preserve provenance and openness.
Open license or status
[edit]Open access
[edit]Machine readability
[edit]Open format
[edit]Documentation
[edit]References
[edit]Literature
[edit]Laustela, Virve; Tahvanainen, Harri (2014-04-08). "Erilaisten valokuva-aineistojen digitointi: suositukset ja työnkulku" (PDF) (in Finnish). Valokuvataiteen museo.
"Digitointi". Suomen Kotiseutuliitto (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-08-16.
"Digitointi | Kansalliskirjasto". www.kansalliskirjasto.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-08-16.
"Home - Digital Preservation Handbook". www.dpconline.org (in en-gb). Retrieved 2022-08-16.