Introduction to Digitisation
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Introduction to Digitisation
Workshop for the Africana Library Trust30-31 March 2010
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Who died and made you expert?
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Who died and made you expert?MSS & Archives since June 2000Digital Imaging Project of South Africa
(DISA) workshop on digitisation, September 2000
Digitising since 2001Digital imaging projectsScanning ‘on-demand’2009: Carnegie Project2010: Digital Initiatives Department
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Talks/PapersDigitisation of glass plate negatives and lantern slides.
Presentation to SAPCON West, October 2003“Digitisation projects at the University of Cape Town
Libraries” (with Lesley Hart). Innovation, vol.30 2005: 32-42
Digitisation as a means of preservation: a look at South African archives. Presentation to the National SAPCON AGM, July 2005
The value of digitising archival material. Presentation to South African Society of Archivists, October 2006
Snapshots of digitisation experiences at the UCT Manuscripts and Archives Department: pitfalls and triumphs. Presentation to LIASA WCHELIG group, 15 November, 2007
Different routes, same destination. Presentation to LIASA WCHELIG group, 29 May, 2008.
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I read therefore I am
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I play, therefore I am2 Personal blogsProfessional blogFlickr AccountFacebook AccountTwitter AccountOnline writerLibrary newsletterEtc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
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Introduce yourself
• Name• Institution• Why are you here? • What do you hope to get out of the workshop?
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What is digitisation?Conversion to machine-readable format of
documents, photographs, music, books…
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Why do we digitise?
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Why do you want to digitise?
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Why do we digitise?Easier to send – via email/over the webMakes material accessible to remote usersEasier to manipulate/include in other
documents It’s what users want – it’s the ‘language
students are speaking now ’ Preserves the originalsIt’s a form of reformatting/backing up – think
photocopying/printing…