Digitisation best practice is often small scale and isolated to particular areas. This workshop enabled librarians and digital imaging specialists to discuss common issues and solutions and share good practice through case studies in varying fields.

2. Sharing digitisation
Best practice

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» Workflow = Back to the
drawing board
» Capture= How big is your chip
» Formats =To jp2k or not to jp2k
» Quality = Attack of the clones
» Original =What’s that smell?

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» Project management will
make up 80% of your
digitisation project
» Can you afford your project?
» What is your unit cost?
“If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.”Tariq Siddique
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» What have you got?
» What do you want?
» What do you need?
Size isn’t everything
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» The mouse that RAWed
» Is open the way?
» DNG or JP2K?
Formats: Does one size fit all?
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» Make it future proof
» Strive for the best
» Is bigger better
Never mind the quality…
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» When is a scratch not a scratch?
» Clipping is bad
» Curves are good
To optimise or not to optimise
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» Metadata is a love note to
the future
» Without metadata you are lost
» Without metadata users are lost
Metadata: It’s just stuff about stuff
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» “We’ve got five years.” Bowie
» OMG I’ve got bit rot
» Where next? (is it in our DNA?)
Preservation: It’s in the jam
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13. Find out more…
Contact…
Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Matt Faber
Advisor – Image digitisation
Matt.faber@jisc.ac.uk
www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk