Sharing digitisation

Best practice

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» Workflow = Back to the drawing board

» Capture = How big is your chip

» Formats = To jp2k or not to jp2k

» Quality = Attack of the clones

» Original = What’s that smell?

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» Project management will make up 80% of your digitisation project

» Can you afford your project?

» What is your unit cost?

“If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.” Tariq Siddique

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» What have you got?

» What do you want?

» What do you need?

Size isn’t everything

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» The mouse that RAWed

» Is open the way?

» DNG or JP2K?

Formats: Does one size fit all?

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» Make it future proof

» Strive for the best

» Is bigger better

Never mind the quality…

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» When is a scratch not a scratch?

» Clipping is bad

» Curves are good

To optimise or not to optimise

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» Metadata is a love note to the future

» Without metadata you are lost

» Without metadata users are lost

Metadata: It’s just stuff about stuff

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» “We’ve got five years.” Bowie

» OMG I’ve got bit rot

» Where next? (is it in our DNA?)

Preservation: It’s in the jam

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Matt FaberAdvisor – Image digitisation

Matt.faber@jisc.ac.uk

www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk