Digitisation: Taking stock

Journal of the Society of Archivists

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-137

  Moss, Michael ^a,b   Currall, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b HATII   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 8744257595     PISSN: 00379816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0037981042000271457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. An earlier version of this paper was delivered at the annual conference of the Society of Archivists in Southampton in September 2003. James Currall and Michael Moss are associated with the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) of the University of Glasgow. They would like to thank Brian Aitken and Gillian McSwann for their help.
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4. 'TheGlasgowStory' technical metadata specification was devised in conjunction with Ian Anderson of HATII as a minimum requirement and captures: date of digitisation, archival format, capture device, capture details, software, archival change history, archival resolution, colour, colour bar, colour profile, archival file size, derivative format, derivative resolution, derivative width, derivative height, derivative file size, derivative change history, and producer. Available at 〈http://www.theglasgowstory.com/〉 (accessed 20 July 2004).
5. There are very few examples of the use of such methodologies. Amongst these is H. R. Tibbo, 'Primarily history: how US historians search for primary sources at the dawn of the digital age', American Archivist, vol 66 (2003), pp 9-50.
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25. In the UK the NOF technical guidelines are increasingly 'the accepted norm ... and are seen as a model that other countries are following', to 'bring all virtual collections closer to the Holy Grail of interoperablity', which is 'currently impossible for technical and political reasons', M. Sorensen, 'Good foundations', Museum Practice, no 24 (2003), pp 48-53.
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35. In the UK this is being addressed by the Digital Preservation Coalition, available at 〈http://www.dpconline.org/〉; a useful guide to digital preservation resources is available at 〈http://edina.ed.ac.uk/preservation/ resources.shtml〉 (both accessed 20 July 2004).
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