Analysing Selection for Digitisation

Ooghe, Bart; Moreels, Dries

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“…This description suggests the existence of a complementary relationship between digital commodities and metadata, indicating that their production and consumption occur simultaneously [11]. It can be argued that digital objects "serve no purpose unless metadata are linked to them" [12]. For example, the Egyptian Museum of Turin in Italy provided fifteen ancient wooden model surrogates and their historical documentation to provide complete information to professionals and nonprofessionals [13].…”

Section: Digitization and Metadatamentioning

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“…Accessible metadata are those whose identifiers permit retrieval. Interoperability is the ability of digital content to "be easily shared between services and users; usable without specialist tools; surfaced in a variety of environments, as well as to manage intellectual property rights and privacy and to secure the integrity and authenticity of content and services" [12].…”

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“…Typically, the selection of items to digitize is based on technical criteria (materials' physical condition), content criteria (uniqueness, significance, and representativeness), and use criteria (materials' demand). Applying these criteria suggests engaging diverse groups of online users to represent a broad spectrum of digitization demand [12,29]. In addition to preserving objects, digitizing also preserves information when combined with stored administrative metadata, thereby ensuring Digitalization: An Overview of the Advantages and Disadvantages DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1002006 accuracy and integrity.…”

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“…Therefore, the accessibility of items likely to vanish soon may be a factor in determining which items are selected for the digital process. In contrast, potential causes of future inaccessibility of collections include physical deterioration, a lack of old-generation technological know-how, and the replacement of hardware and software systems due to obsolescence [12]. As this characteristic is likely to be a critical factor for storing many items, a large portion of the stored collections should be selected for digitization.…”

Section: Items Selection To Mitigate Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digitalization: An Overview of the Advantages and Disadvantages

Corona¹

2023

Aspects of Digital Libraries - Digitization, Standards, Open Access, Repositories and User’s Skills

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Collections are the heart of museums, born for anyone’s benefit. In order to ensure people to enjoy collections, museums operate as the stewards of items to preserve them for today and future generations. Due to the growing technological improvements and the advent of the Internet, collections have been made available for the audience’s benefit, both offline and online. The topic of digitization of collections and associated information is of the utmost importance inasmuch as it depicts a powerful tool for creating automated processes to manage collections for internal work purposes and disseminating culture within and beyond the museum walls. This paper aims to provide the reader with a general picture of the matter. For this purpose, it illustrates the development of digitization since its first steps, when cultural institutions started approaching the usage of computers in the 1960s. Then, this study focuses on the main advantages and disadvantages of digitization. For instance, this practice contributes to preserving items through digital surrogates. Additionally, collections are made widely accessible-albeit virtually- thereby democratizing them. Nevertheless, it is argued that digital content might trigger the loss of the ‘aura’, typically associated with seeing original items due to their uniqueness. Furthermore, digitization is a resource and time-consuming process whose outcome is prone to incurring the phenomenon of rapid ‘technological quicksand’. Finally, this study deals with the main revenue streams from digital content, such as merchandise and image licensing sale.

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“…Myriads of guidelines exist to answer these questions, exposing various criteria such as legal issues, stakeholders concerns, known use of collections, purpose of the digitization and, naturally, cost and physical condition of documents (Lopatin, 2006). Overall, if surveys reveal important disparities among practices, the selection of materials first and foremost depends on the general context within which digitization takes place, and follows a mix of preservation, user and/or exploitation-driven approaches (Ooghe et al, 2009). According to the EU study, only a third of the surveyed institutions have a written digitization strategy, but this lot is on the rise.…”

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Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Colavizza

Ehrmann

Bortoluzzi

2019

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-based information system for digitized historical archives, relying on historical indexing tools. Commonly prepared to search within homogeneous records when the archive was still current, such indexes were as widespread as they were disconnected, that is to say situated in the very records they were meant to index. We first present a conceptual model to describe and manipulate historical indexing tools. We then introduce a methodological framework for their use in order to guide digitization campaigns and index digitized historical records. Finally, we exemplify the approach with a case study on the indexation system of the X Savi alle Decime in Rialto, a Venetian magistracy in charge for the exaction-and related record keeping-of a tax on real estate in early modern Venice.

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Content Selection for Digitisation

Coutts¹

2017

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Digitalization: An Overview of the Advantages and Disadvantages

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