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
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 January 8, 2025, https://dar.cah.ucf.edu/items/show/199.