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

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Researching the data about the object

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  • Record information in institutional context
  • Rights information
  • Provenance
  • Content description
  • Contextual information
  • Information about the physical object
  • Location data

Clearing rights

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Grouping and prioritizing

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Planning and checking the process and equipment

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  • Training
  • Selecting the equipment
  • Calibration of the equipment

Technical choices

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Scanning vs photographing

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File formats

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Quality

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Taking publishing channel requirements into account

Principles of openness

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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

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Open access

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Machine readability

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Open format

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Documentation

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References

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Literature

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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.