Digitization

For those librarians interested in all aspects of digitization, the Research Libraries Group has identified five blogs that are worth consulting. The five blogs are:

digitizationblog - http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/?page_id=149

Blogger: Mark Jordan, Head of Library Systems, W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
From the “About” page: “digitizationblog focuses on digitization and related activities (such as electonic publishing) in libraries, archives, and museums, and is intended to be a source of news relevent to people who manage and implement digitization. projects.”
First entry: Sunday, November 14, 2004

Digitization 101 – http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Jill Hurst-Wahl, MLS, consultant and owner of Hurst Associates, Ltd.
From the “About” page: “This blog is the creation of Hurst Associates, Ltd. (http://www.HurstAssociates.com) and is THE PLACE for staying up-to-date on issues, topics, and lessons learned surrounding the creation, management, marketing and preservation of digital assets. (A few other topics are covered when the mood hits!)”
First entry: Monday, August 30, 2004

digitize everything – http://www.digiwik.org/digitize-everything/

Blogger: Michael Yunkin, Web Content/Metadata Manager, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Libraries
From the “About” page: “Digitize Everything is a blog about digitization of all types.”
First entry: Friday, January 13, 2006

D A V A : Digital Audiovisual Archiving – http://av-archive.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Gilad L. Rosner, Media Matters, LLC
From the tagline: “A blog focused on the digital transformation and preservation of audiovisual material.”
First entry: Thursday, March 10, 2005

File Formats Blog – http://fileformats.blogspot.com/

Blogger: Gary McGath, Digital Library Software Engineer, Harvard University Libraries
From the tagline: “News and comments about technical issues relating to file formats, file validation, and archival software.”
First entry: Sunday, November 28, 2004

For those of us who value the Minnesota Digital Library and have documents, photos, maps, etc. which may or may not be candidates for digitization, the Digital Preservation Coalition has developed a very useful decision tree to assist in making a determination. The tree is located at http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/handbook/dec-tree-select.html