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Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials
Shared best practices for still image materials followed by agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI). The latest update in 2023... -
Code of Ethics and Professional Practices for Collections Professionals
Codes of ethics that are specifically tailored for the activities and responsibilities of collections professionals. This code of ethics is part of the American Alliance of... -
Digital Images Are Data: And Should Be Treated as Such
Author's manuscript of an article published in Methods Mol Biol. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-056-4_1). This makes a point that digital images are data and thus should... -
Avoiding Twisted Pixels: Ethical Guidelines for the Appropriate Use and...
Author Manuscript of the article published in Sci Eng Ethics (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-010-9201-y). This manuscript describes guidelines for the ethical use and... -
Smart Shooter
Remote shooting camera software. One aspect that makes it useful for digitizing collections is that it can read different types of barcodes directly from the photo and include... -
Handbook of best practice and standards for 2D+ and 3D imaging of natural...
List and describe a comprehensive number of techniques for the digitization of 2D and 3D objects in natural history collections. It highlights the weak and strong points of each... -
Shining Light on Labels in the Dark: Guidelines for Offensive Collections Materials
This article provides guidelines on how to deal with offensive language present in labels and images of collections in a way that both preserves historical integrity and... -
Smithsonian Institution Archives - Digitizing Collections
The resource details technical specifications and standards followed by the Smithsonian Institution Archives for the digitization of still images, audiovisual, and video. -
Preservation Guidelines for Digitizing Library Materials
This resource from the Library of Congress provides a set of guidelines for the care and handling of collection materials during the digitization process. It outlines... -
Digital Imaging: Ethics
This document provides a collection of guidelines regarding the ethical acquisition and manipulation of files. This helps to avoid manipulating images in a way that is... -
Audiovisual Core Term List
The Audiovisual Core Term List is a comprehensive metadata standard that defines controlled vocabularies for describing biodiversity-related multimedia resources (images, audio,... -
Axiell DAMS
Digital Asset Management system by Axiell. This software is specialized for museums, archives, and heritage institutions. -
ViceVersaPro
Commercial backup solution, which allows file synchronization, file replication, file backup, and file comparison. It allows comparison of files via checksums. -
Retrospect
Commercial backup solution. It allows checksums check for media files. -
Zerene Stacker
Photo stacking software combines the best-focused areas of several images. It works for a range of subjects from macro to landscapes, -
Adobe Photoshop
An image editing tool for complex edits that can be used in image post-processing. It is more useful when the subject requires individualized attention. Photoshop also has focus... -
Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement
Describes recommended formats for analog and digital creative works that will maximise the survivability and continued accessibility of the creative content.