AvoinGLAM/Recommendations for digitizing images
This page is a draft guideline for non-institutional contributors for creating high quality digital assets for public use.
Before digitization edit
Researching the data about the object edit
- Record information in institutional context
- Rights information
- Provenance
- Content description
- Contextual information
- Information about the physical object
- Location data
Clearing rights edit
Grouping and prioritizing edit
Planning and checking the process and equipment edit
- Training
- Selecting the equipment
- Calibration of the equipment
Technical choices edit
Scanning vs photographing edit
File formats edit
Quality edit
Taking publishing channel requirements into account
Principles of openness edit
Knowledge is open if anyone is free to access, use, modify, and share it — subject, at most, to measures that preserve provenance and openness.
Open license or status edit
Open access edit
Machine readability edit
Open format edit
Documentation edit
References edit
Literature edit
Laustela, Virve; Tahvanainen, Harri (2014-04-08). "Erilaisten valokuva-aineistojen digitointi: suositukset ja työnkulku" (PDF) (in Finnish). Valokuvataiteen museo.
"Digitointi". Suomen Kotiseutuliitto (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-08-16.
"Digitointi | Kansalliskirjasto". www.kansalliskirjasto.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-08-16.
"Home - Digital Preservation Handbook". www.dpconline.org (in en-gb). Retrieved 2022-08-16.