Digital imaging
Subtitle: a practical handbook
By: Stuart D. Lee.
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers in association with Library Association Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Library materials -- Digitization -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Archival materials -- Digitization -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Image processing -- Digital techniques -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Digital preservation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Library materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: "This introductory practitioner's guide to digital imaging focuses on a practical approach to undertaking and managing a digitization project. It offers advice on how to capture a digitized image from print, photographs, surrogates and other material, including rare and fragile items, and looks at the bulk digitization of grey material. It also discusses the options and the preservation and access issues involved at each stage, and the factors determining digital image quality.

The chapters include: Where do you start? The digitization project; What are you digitizing? Instigation, selection and assessment; How do you digitize?; What are the next steps? Preparation and digitization; and What else is needed? Cataloguing, delivery and completion.".

"Complete with its listing of further sources of information in an international context, this text is essential reading for library practitioners across all sectors who are considering undertaking a digitization project. It is equally valuable for all information professionals and students of LIS who wish to research the technology and issues related to digital imaging."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Where do you start? The digitization project 1; title: Introduction 1; title: What is digitization? 3; title: Why do we digitize material? 4; title: The digitization project life-cycle 7; title: Chapter summary 9; title: 2 What are you digitizing? Instigation, selection and assessment 10; title: Introduction 10; title: Instigation of the project 10; title: Assessing projects and selecting material 13; title: Assessing and selecting: the matrix approach 15; title: Constructing the decision matrix 16; title: A working example 30; title: Using the decision matrix in the real worl' 32; title: Chapter summary 33; title: 3 How do you digitize? 35; title: Introduction 35; title: A definition: scanning or digitization? 35; title: Understanding digital imaging 36; title: The anatomy of a digital image: dots, pixels, and resolutions 36; title: Digital image file formats 44; title: Digitization hardware and software 49; title: The digitization assessment stage 61; title: Feasibility: the final piece of the matrix 70; title: An example ofprioritization 70; title: Chapter summary 75; title: 4 What are the next steps? Preparation and digitization 76; title: Introduction 76; title: Preparation 76; title: The digitization workflow 79; title: The costs of digitization 92; title: Chapter summary 102; title: 5 What else is needed? Cataloguing, delivery and completion 103; title: Introduction 103; title: Cataloguing and metadata 103; title: Delivery systems 126; title: Delivering full text 136; title: Copyright and image protection (watermarking) 139; title: Archiving and preservation 145; title: The complete life-cycle of a digital imaging project 147; title: The Utopian vision 155; title: Conclusion 158; title: Appendix A The national and international context of digitization 160; title: Appendix B Questionnaires 170; title: Questionnaire 1 170; title: Questionnaire 2 172; title: Appendix C Further reading 175; title: Index 187.