digitization
Let an agent explain digitisation methods and standards, plan digitisation projects, describe quality, metadata and preservation practices, and separate digitisation from digitalisation.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain digitisation methods and standards, plan digitisation projects, describe quality, metadata and preservation practices, and separate digitisation from digitalisation.
The process of converting analogue information such as documents, images, sound, film, objects or signals into digital form by scanning, sampling, photographing or sensing, producing files that can be stored, searched, processed and shared; digitisation is central to archives, libraries, publishing, medicine and industry and is distinct from digitalisation, the broader transformation of processes.
What it is for: Converting analogue material to digital form.
It can be explain digitisation methods; plan a digitisation project; describe quality, metadata and preservation; separate related terms.
Distinguishing features
Conversion process
Sampling and resolution
Metadata and standards
Preservation role
What it looks like
Scanners, cameras and sampling equipment producing digital files.
How it is recognised
Analogue to digital conversion
Produces files
Digitalisation changes processes rather than converting material
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - follow-on
is related to - main users
is related to - signal capture
In practice
Families and kinds
document and book scanning
photographic and film digitisation
audio and video digitisation
3D digitisation of objects
signal digitisation by sampling
Standards and regulation
Imaging guidelines such as FADGI and Metamorfoze
Metadata standards
Copyright and data protection rules
Failure modes and hazards
Low quality or lossy capture
Missing metadata
Damage to originals during handling
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Plan Digitisation projects.
Planning.
Scope
Scoping a project.
Scope
Scoping.
- How should a digitisation project be scoped, prioritised and budgeted for this collection? action
- In-house or outsourced? boundary
Rights
Rights and permissions.
Rights
Rights.
- Which copyright and data protection issues arise in digitising this material? provenance
- How is access managed? provenance
Capture Methods and quality.
Technical.
Methods
Capture methods.
Methods
Methods.
- Which capture method and equipment suit this material, such as flatbed, overhead or camera scanning, or audio transfer? action
- What resolution, bit depth and format are recommended by guidelines? provenance
Quality
Quality control.
Quality
Quality.
- How is digitisation quality controlled and measured? action
- How are originals protected during capture? provenance
Manage Metadata and preservation.
Long-term.
Metadata
Metadata.
Metadata
Metadata.
- Which descriptive, technical and preservation metadata should accompany digitised files? provenance
- Which standards apply? provenance
Preserve
Preservation.
Preserve
Preservation.
- How are digitised files preserved over the long term, with formats, storage and checksums? provenance
- How is access provided? action
Concepts Terms and history.
Context.
Terms
Digitisation versus digitalisation.
Terms
Terms.
- How do digitisation, digitalisation and digital transformation differ? definition
- Is signal sampling or scanning technology such as parallax scanning meant? boundary
History
History.
History
History.
- How did mass digitisation develop, and which projects were landmarks? provenance
- Which debates surround them? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should each media type be a separate entry?
- How should imaging guidelines be linked?
- How should preservation standards be linked?