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The contractor shall copy a collection of original nitrate and acetate film negatives from the collection of the contracting institution; approximately to negatives ranging in size from 35mm frames to 8”x10”. The total number of images to be copied…

These standardized guidelines published by the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative are what constitute the collection of best practices when it comes to digitizing images and documents. This is a document that is updated for the…

Institutional repositories resemble archives in that they store, preserve in perpetuity, and index their holdings. They thereby require a similar approach to building and maintaining their collections. Additionally, institutional repositories…

In the article What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers by Trevor Owens, he discusses archives, what they are and how they are used in different fields. This piece delves into the different forms and contexts of archiving,…

This article details the processes, protocols, and results used when several European audio archives were transferred to a Digital platform. It also takes the stance for re-recording digital files to retain the information that could be lost using…

Designed by the Orange County Library System, this is an archive that seeks to preserve personal records relating to Orlando, creating a database for local history research. It relies on user-created content in the form of images, audio files, or…

The goal of the Vatican Library Digital Archive Project is to preserve over 80,000 manuscripts and 41 million pages. However, the project also seeks to make these manuscripts accessible to the general public as part of a digital library. The Vatican…

Nicholas Tanzi wrote a book to assist librarians on how to teach others to use the digital repositories and digital materials in the libraries database. Much like UCF’s library, most libraries have their entire collection online where you can request…

In his foundational new media text, Nelson describes literature itself as a series of interconnecting documents, and suggests that society needs a universal system for storing and preserving texts. Though he writes in the early 1980s, Nelson's…

This book references information on why it is important to refurbish and maintain physical or tangible text. When resources and information become unavailable due to deterioration or missing text all together they become mundane and troublesome to…