The AABC Archivist's Toolkit: Automation and Digitization

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General Resources
Digital Reformatting
Automation / Digitization Projects
Software & Databases
Publications

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Revised: Feb 2012 KS

GENERAL RESOURCES

Automation

Council of Nova Scotia Archives Archives Management Software Review Report

Directory of Archival Suppliers: Software

ASA Database Tutorials

New Partnerships for Old Sibling Rivals: The Development of Integrated Access Systems for the Holdings of Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Believing InMagic: How RAD and Automation Have Changed the Glenbow Archives

Digitization

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation & Access

Introduction to Imaging

Fields of Vision: Toward a New Theory of Visual Literacy for Digitized Archival Photographs

Chip Monks at the Gate: The Impact of Technology on Archives, Libraries and the User

DIGITAL REFORMATTING

Scanning and Digitization (NAGARA: National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, 2010)

CLIR Reports (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009)

Sample reports:
Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper Oya Y. Rieger. February 2008. Pub 141
Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation Gregory W. Lawrence, William R. Kehoe, Oya Y. Rieger, William H. Walters, and Anne R. Kenney. June 2000. Pub 93
Authenticity in a Digital Environment. May 2000. Pub 92
Why Digitize? / Abby Smith. February 1999. Pub 80
Digitization as a Method of Preservation? Hartmut Weber and Marianne Dvrr. October 1997. Pub 69

Creating and Managing Digital Content (Canadian Heritage Information Network, 2008)

Digital Output: Inkjet & Laser Printers (or Life and Death in the Digital World) Rosaleen Hill (Delivered at the 2008 AABC Annual Conference)

Archival Community Digitization Program (ACDP) : An Invitation to Archives in BC Fred Farrell AABC Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2007, p.2 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2007)

Best Practices for Digitization (resource list) (BC History Digitization Program, 2007)

A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (National Information Standards Organization, 2007)

Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get into the Flow Ricky Erway and Jennifer Schaffner (Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, 2007)

Digitization Fundamentals (Online Courses and Best Practices, Canadian Heritage Information Network, 2006)

Digitization and Archives / CCA Preservation Committee (Canadian Council of Archives, 2002)

The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, 2002)

Capture Your Collections: A Guide for Managers Planning and Implementing Digitization Projects (Canadian Heritage Resources Network, 2000)

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access / Maxine K. Sitts (ed) (Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000)

Digitization resources (Council of Nova Scotia Archives, 200-)

Digitization resources (Archives Council of Prince Edward Island, 200-)

Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet Stephen E. Ostrow (Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998)

Selecting Research Collections for Digitalization Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell and Jan Merrill-Oldham (Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998)

AUTOMATION / DIGITIZATION PROJECTS

Northwood Photographic Fonds Digitization Project Erica Hernández and Ramona Rose AABC Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 4, Fall 2007 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2007)

Collaborative Digitization Program (Colorado: Bibliographical Center for Research - BCR, 2007)

A Perspective on Archival Network Development Bill Purver AABC Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring 2002 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2002)

Raising CAIN in Alberta Geraldine Harris ASA Newsletter / Volume 21 Number 3, Winter/Spring 2002 (Archives Society of Alberta, 2002)

Pacifica Millennium Project Trevor May. AABC Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer 2000 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2000)

DATABASE SOFTWARE

ICA-AtoM

The ICA-AtoM Project and Technology

DB Text Works and Web Publisher (Inmagic, Inc.)

PUBLICATIONS

(for sources click here)

"The Effect of the Web on Archives" / Sylvain Senécal (Archivaria 59, The Association of Canadian Archivists, 2005)

Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager (FACET, the imprint of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2004)

Enhancement of Document Legibility Using Spectroscopic Imaging / E. Michael Attas (Archivaria 57, The Association of Canadian Archivists, 2004)

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives / Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (Ohio: Online Computer Library Center, Research Libraries Group, 2000)