Week 10: Digitization

Due

• In class we will start the Week 10 activity, Imaging and Conservation Group Activity. Submit your completed activity summary in Brightspace by Sunday night.

Read

• Koster, Lucas. “Persistent identifiers for heritage objects.” Code4lib Journal: Issue 47, 2020-02-17. https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14978
• Prescott, Andrew and Hughs, Lorna. “Why Do We Digitize? The Case for Slow Digitization.” Archive Journal: September 2018. https://www.archivejournal.net/essays/why-do-we-digitize-the-case-for-slow-digitization/
• Thompson, Samantha, “Why don’t archivists digitize everything?” Archives @ PAMA blog: May 31, 2017. https://peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/why-dont-archivists-digitize-everything/
• Yolkowski, John and Jamieson, Krista. “Access and Preservation in Archival Mass Digitization Projects.” Practical Technology for Archives: 2017, Vol. 1, No. 7. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/76865/Access_and_Preservation_in_Archival_Mass_Digitization_Projects.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• “Digitizing Entire Collections.” Archives of American Art. https://www.aaa.si.edu/documentation/digitizing-entire-collections
• Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2021/oclcresearch-total-cost-of-stewardship-a4.pdf

Watch

• COPY BYTES: Digitization And Libraries, Part 1
• COPY BYTES: Digitization And Libraries, Part 2