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Digitization Resources

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Project Management:
Selecting Research Collections for Digitization
Council on Library and Information Resources Report, August 1998
Preservation in the Digital World
Council on Library and Information Resources Report, March 1996
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Planning a Digital Project
Washington State Library Digital Best Practices
Digitization Glossary
Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP)

Metadata:
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
CDP Metadata Working Group Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Official EAD Version 2002
CIDOC Guidelines for Museum Object Information: Object Title Information Group
a description of the Information Categories that can be used when developing records about the objects in museum collections

Scanning
Library of Congress American Memory
Technical Information
NARA Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access:
Creation of Production Master Files - Raster Images
Digital Image Sizes from archivebuilders.com
Computer storage requirements for various digitized document types
Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
Digital Library Federation
CDP Technical Resources
links to various sites that provide information on scanning, file formats, naming conventions, and other technical issues