Best Practices and Procedures * Data Standards and Metadata
* Scanning How Tos * Image Manipulation Software * Digital Education Discussions 1. BEST PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES
The California Digital Library (CDL) The CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects (CDL GDO, this document) provides specifications for all new digital objects prepared by institutions for submission to CDL for access and preservation services. They are not intended to cover all of the administrative, operational, and technical issues surrounding the creation of digital object collections. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC ) JISC Digital Media, formerly TASI, is part of an independent advisory body that works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities use to use ICT to support learning, teaching, research and administration. The Digital media helps these groups to embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective. Our advice documents cover all aspects of creating and using digital media resources. To find an advice document you can either go into the different media section (Still images, Moving images, Audio) or for issues relating to all media, use the Cross-media section. Within those sections, you can also browse by digital lifecycle stage (Managing a project, Digitising analogue media, Creating new digital media, Managing your digital resources or Finding and using digital media). National Archives and Records Admininstratrion (NARA) Creation of Production Master Files - Raster Images for the Following Record Types - Textual, Graphic Illustrations/Artwork/Originals, Maps, Plans, Oversized, Photographs, Aerial Photographs, and Objects/Artifacts Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative This site is a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner. Recognizing that the effort would require specialized expertise, two separate working groups were formed with the possibility that more tightly focused groups might be necessary as the work progressed. The Federal Agencies Still Image Digitization Working Group will concentrate its efforts on image content such as books, manuscripts, maps, and photographic prints and negatives. The Federal Agencies Audio-Visual Working Group is focusing its work on sound, video, and motion picture film. UPDIG Digital Image Submission Guidelines (-DISG ) The DISG working group addresses standards to improve the “hand-off” of digital image files from photographers to end users of all types. This diverse community includes stock image distributors, magazine and book publishers, publication designers, web designers, art directors, museums and fine-art publishers. Members of the DISG working group represent both digital image suppliers and user communities, including magazine publishers, stock image distributors, graphic and web designers, museums, and others. BCR’s Collaborative Digitization Project 2. DATA STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES
Library of Congress The Getty Information Institute, 2008 An online publication devoted to metadata, its types and uses, and how it can improve access to digital resources. Version 3.0 of Introduction to Metadata is available in paperback from the Getty Bookstore Visual Resource Association Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) is a data content standards initiative for the cultural heritage community. CCO web resources include cataloging examples, training tools and presentations for use by practitioners, in addition to excerpts from the CCO print publication. Sponsored by the Visual Resources Association Foundation, CCO activities center on educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of cataloging best practices for the visual resources, museum, library, and archival communities. VRA Core 4.0 The VRA Core is a data standard for the description of works of visual
culture as well as the images that document them. The standard is
hosted by the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress (LC) in partnership with the Visual Resources Association The Working Group on Preservation Metadata, The Dublin Core® Metadata Initiative Open Archive Initiative Protocol Square sandalwood curio box with cloud-and-dragon décor (containing 47 curios)
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- First to Catalog National Palace Museum 3. SCANNING HOW TOS Real World Scanning and Halftones, Explanations, tips, and real world knowledge about making a good scan and taking it all the way to a printed piece, the Web, or film output. The book teaches how to scan, tonally and color correct, sharpen, and output A few scanning tips Wayne Fulton presents a little bit lighter and easier read. Many people with a great deal of digital experience use it. Especially read "Evaluating Scanner Features and Performance" 4. IMAGE MANIPULATION SOFTWARE
Adobe Studio Exchange Joe Cheng, then a student at MIT's Sloan School of Management started this collection in 1996. He set out to create a community where Adobe Photoshop users could trade Photoshop Actions, those cool effect-generating macros for Photoshop. It is now run by Adobe and is a great source of free add ons to make your imaging work easier and more efficient. BabelColor®
color measurement and analysis tools Informatik Reformat a
universal graphics reformatting and transformation utility, an ideal
tool for document management and document imaging systems. Reformat
supports single and multipage TIFF files of various compressions (and
over 20 current and legacy graphics formats). The interactive program
allows you to process selected files, entire directories, even nested
subfolders. Included is a utility to convert Tiff files to PDF. ThumbNailer is a Windows utility that
allows you to create thumbnail images and image galleries. You can use
it to convert between one graphics format and another, change image
color depth, resize images, make image galleries for the web or CD and
more. Accusoft offers an array of SDKs and customizable web-based solutions for those who are rolling their own. The software development kits include imaging conversion, tweaking, compression, viewing and PDF/A conversion Lizardtech - enables an efficient workflow for high-volume, high resolution images. Product line includes, MrSid file/image compression. Picture Information Extractor 5.3 The ultimate tool for digital cameras. PIE is an unique picture browser and viewer with exquisite photo metadata and file renaming features. It extracts EXIF, XMP and IPTC from JPG, TIF and RAW files and makes it available in a convenient and welcoming interface. 5. COLOR MANAGEMENT DISCUSSIONS
Color Management and Windows: This is a really good explanation of color management, even if quite old in digital terms. Caution and Quick Response Offer Best Defense Against Image Corruption Another extremely useful read for a novice to the complexities of
color management. It is written by one of the experts in the field, Rob
Galbraith, who has a great web site for photographers. 6. DIGITAL EDUCATION DISCUSSIONS The Future of Digital Learning: Institutions in a Digital Age: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/Future_of_Learning.pdf Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with the assistance of Zoê Marie Jones The John d. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, 2009 This John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Report is a redaction of the argument in our book-in-progress, currently titled The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. That book, to be published in 2010, is merely the concrete (paper and online) manifestation and culmination of a long, complex process that brought together dozens of collaborators, face to face and virtually. The focus of all of this intense interchange was the shape and future of learning institutions. Our charge was to accept the challenge of an Information Age and acknowledge, at the conceptual as well as at the methodological level, the responsibilities of learning at an epistemic moment when learning itself is the most dramatic medium of that change. Technology, we insist, is not what constitutes the revolutionary nature of this exciting moment. It is,rather, the potential for shared and interactive learning that Tim Berners-Lee and other pioneers of the Internet built into its structure, its organization, its model of governance and sustainability.
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