Digitizing Flat Media - Principles and Practices

Informationen zum Autor By Joy M. Perrin Klappentext Here is a concise guide to the nuts and bolts of converting flat media (books, papers, maps, posters, slides, micro formats, etc) into digital files. It provides librarians and archivists with the practical knowledge to understand the process and decision making in the digitization of flat media. Instead of having to learn by trial and error, they will get a well-rounded education of the practical aspects of digitization and have a better understanding of their options. This is the stuff they don't teach you in school. Digitizing Flat Media: Principles and Practices is intended to give librarians and archivists the benefit a seasoned digitization professional guiding them and helping them figure out exactly what needs to be done when. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: The Principles for Starting a Digitization ProjectChapter 2: Principles for Different Material TypesChapter 3: ScannersChapter 4: Other EquipmentChapter 5: Digital File BasicsChapter 6: Software and ProcessingChapter 7: Metadata in PracticeChapter 8: Digitization Project Planning PrinciplesChapter 9: A Digital Collection's Life After DigitizationIndexAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Joy Perrin, Joy M. Perrin, Perrin Joy M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781442258082
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5808-2
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: LITA Guides; LITA Guides
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Archiving, preservation and digitization, Digitization;Preservation