Format: Self-paced Course
Developed by: WebJunction, in collaboration with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation
Length: 2 hours
Overview
While digitization is only one of the ways to gather items for digital collections, it is central to the kinds of digital collections most institutions wish to create, and the method most people think of first. It also tends
to be the costliest and most labor intensive, requiring specialized skills and knowledge. The various kinds of physical and analog items you might digitize require different technical processes, specifications, skills, and equipment to create the
digital objects for your collection.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe what digitization is and entails to your staff and community
- Understand the processes, technologies and skills involved in common digitization tasks
- Identify digitization technology or resources you will need to digitize your items
- Make decisions regarding the three basic strategies to accomplishing digitization work
- Plan for digitization and document relevant processes and workflows
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