Digital Archiving Resources

Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images

Title

Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images

Subject

Archives

Description

The NARA Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access define approaches for creating digital surrogates for facilitating access and reproduction; they are not considered appropriate for preservation reformatting to create surrogates that will replace original records. Technical guidelines include Digital Image Capture, Minimum Metadata, File Formats, Naming, and Storage, and Quality Control.

Creator

Puglia, Steven
Reed, Jeffrey
Rhodes, Erin

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Date

June 2004

Contributor

Korosec, Pat

Rights

NARA

Type

Document

Bibliographic Citation

Puglia, Steven, Jeffrey Reed, and Erin Rhodes. "Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images."

Files

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Collection

Citation

Puglia, Steven , Reed, Jeffrey, and Rhodes, Erin, “Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files – Raster Images,” Digital Archiving Resources, accessed April 20, 2024, https://dar.cah.ucf.edu/items/show/199.