Digital Libraries -e553
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Title
Why?
What?
How?
Digitization
Digitization is one of the basic processes in creation of contents
for a digital library. In a narrow technical sense, digitization is
the process of creating a digital image from an information
object – text, picture, sound … . But in a broader sense,
digitization involves a number of other processes and a host of
decisions related to these processes. The aim here is to explore
digitization in this broader context. A number of large
digitization projects of library-related materials, particularly
books, are being digitalized outside of libraries, but have an
impact on libraries – these need to be considered as well.
Considering digitization in a broad context involving a number of
decisions that have to be made in
 selection of object to digitize
 criteria and constrains in selection, including legal
requirements
 determination of standards for scanning
 scanning technology & process
 quality control of scanned objects, and
 posting for use.
Examples of large digitalization projects
Lecture 07
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