Documentation

Research report

• Alternative File Formats for Storing Master Images of Digitisation Projects (pdf)

Guidelines

• Memory of the Netherlands
• Metamorfoze

Publications

• E. Klijn, The Current State-of-art in Newspaper Digitization (2008)

Links

Digitization international (examples)

• Cornell University Library/ Research Department, Digital Imaging Tutorial
• Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum
• Library of Congress
• National Library of Australia
• Washington State Library, Digital Best Practices
• Preservation Access to Digital Information

Formats

• Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) (Wikipedia)

Images

• Technical Advisory Service for Images
• The Society for Imaging Science and Technology

Metadata

• The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
• MPEG21 DIDL
• Introduction to metadata (Getty Research Institute)
• METAe—Automated Encoding of Digitized Texts

OCR

• Deciding whether Optical Character Recognition is feasible (pdf)
• Microfilm, Paper, and OCR: Issues in Newspaper Digitization (pdf)
• Optical Character Recognition (Wikipedia)

Magazines

• D-Lib Magazine