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Society for Imaging Science and Technology

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Lists projects and the CONTENTdm field properties for each. Great comparison resource. Also has some data dictionaries for some collections.

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ABBYY FineReader® 10 is a comprehensive OCR software that turns scanned documents, PDFs and digital camera images into searchable and editable formats, including Microsoft® Word, Excel® and searchable PDF.
$399.99

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Compares Sprint and Professional version of the Optical Character Recognition Software.

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Brown University's newsletter announcing repository services and digitization activities. Using Fedora for software system.

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The work will focus on guidelines intended for works categorized as historical, cultural and/or archival. In addition to digital imaging and encoding, guidelines will be developed for the metadata that is embedded in digital image files, with a view to increasing the extent to which the files can be “self-describing.”

Participants include IMLS, Library of Congress, NLM, NAL, NIST, GPO, NARA.

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Rich with directions and resources about choosing hardware, software and their use in digitization. Scanners, Computers. Some step by step procedures are included as well. Great for those just beginning.

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April 1996 D-Lib article on how the Library of Congress is proceeding to digitize its historical items. Great source of planning and determining the challenges of digitization.

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Resources from Advanced Data Wrangling: Tips tricks and software for creating perfect tab-delimited metadata files for batch loading into CONTENTdm.
St. John's University

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Seminar on uses of Contentdm in October 2008. Includes pdf documents of the presentations.

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Research supported by Ithaka, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore relationships between commercial and non-commercial entities involving digitization of cultural heritage.

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Broad overview of all kinds of Digital Asset Management software currently available.

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Message board with many suggestions for equipment to scan slides.

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Has a copy of the Codex Vaticanus. Can refer to information when digitizing ours.

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Theses section of MIT's Dspace. Good source of introductory language.

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Reservations about Google Books implications for libraries, booksellers, authors and publishers.

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File naming convention used by the University of California and is a standard.

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Using mathematical model and user stats to target represetative portions of collections that will serve a large majority of users. From presentation at Society of American Archivists in Austin, Texas, 2009

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August 31, 2009 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that points out some endemic errors with the digitized book quality including grossly erroneous dates. Also points out the problem of monopoly.

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Includes some links to digitized hymnal pages and audio files for the tunes.

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