Digitizing Microfilm
Microfilm-Specific Resources
- Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming (IFLA Professional Reports, Number 49) (PDF, 1.43Mb)
- Guidelines for Microfilming to Support Digitization (PDF, 1.43Mb)
- Microfilming for Digitisation and Optical Character Recognition, Supplement to Guidelines (via Newspapers Section (IFLANet)
- Preliminary Results of Investigation to Optimize Microfilm for Digitization (PDF, 323kb)
- Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books by Stephen Chapman, Paul Conway, and Anne Kenney (via RLG DigiNews: Volume 3, Number 1)
- FAQ-Microfilm Scanning (via RLG DigiNews: Volume 5, Number 3)
- Quick and Dirty Guide to Microfilm Digitization Companies (via SLA News Division)
- Digitizing Historic Newspapers: Progress and Prospects by Marilyn Deegan, Emil Steinvel, Edmund King (via RLG DigiNews, Volume 6, Number 4, [August 15, 2002])
- Language And Media Processing (LAMP) (via University of Maryland, College Park)
- The Current State-of-art in Newspaper Digitization A Market Perspective by Edwin Klijn (via D-Lib Magazine, Volume 14 Number 1/2 [January/February 2008])
General Digitization Resources
- Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
- Recommendations for the Evaluation of Digital Images
- Moving Theory into Practice : Digital Imaging Tutorial (via Cornell University)
- Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections - Appendix E: Digitization (via Oxford University)
- Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections by Timothy W. Cole
(via First Monday, volume 7, number 5 [May 2002]) - Digital Preservation and Deep Infrastructure by Stewart Granger (via D-Lib, volume 8, number 2 [February 2002])
- Why Digitize by Abby Smith (via Council on Library and Information Resources)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Going Grey? Comparing the OCR Accuracy Levels of Bitonal and Greyscale Images by Tracy Powell and Gordon Paynter (via D-Lib Magazine, Volume 15 Number 3/4 [March/April 2009])
- Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitisation Programs by Rose Holley (via D-Lib Magazine, Volume 15 Number 3/4 [March/April 2009])
- Microfilm, Paper and OCR: Issues in Newspaper Digitization by Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert (PDF, 3.55 Mb)
- ALTO (Analyzed Layout Text Object) - Technical Metadata for Optical Character Recognition
Also see Metadata Resources
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Last Updated: 07/19/2011
