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VITA Digital Toolkit is a complete, cloud-based solution for building digital collections. Use VITA to easily upload, describe and display your collections online. Community engagement and global discovery features includes export for West Beyond the West and Canadiana portals. Great for images, documents, newspapers, oral histories, 3D objects and more.
The Archivist’s Toolkit – Automation and Digitization (Archives Association of British Columbia)
This toolkit offers access to a wide range of on-line and published resources regarding digitization for information professionals of all levels.
Building Digital Collections: A Technical Overview (Library of Congress)
The information on this page documents current solutions to technical challenges and solutions devised and implemented in the past. The page is updated and expanded periodically.
Digital Library Federation
The DLF is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic-information technology to extend collections and services.
Canadiana Digitization Services
As a Center of Excellence in the field of Digitization, Preservation, and Access, Canadiana.org acts in support of and serves as service provider for everything that relates to the production and management of digital collections in Canada
EAD Toolkit (California Digital Library)
This toolkit of freeware, commercial, and CDL-developed resources will help contributors create and submit EAD collection guides.
Information for Technologists (California Digital Library)
A useful list of software and services, and best practices and standards as a information gateway for technologists.
METS Toolkit (California Digital Library)
This toolkit of freeware, commercial, and CDL-developed resources will help contributors create and submit METS digital objects.
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial (Cornell University Library, Research Department)
This tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts, in particular the value of bench-marking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative.
Overview of JISC Digital Media Materials for Digitsation Project Staff
This guide provides an overview of the JISC Digital Media website materials that digitisation project staff will find useful during the lifetime of a project. Topics covered include equipment, funding, management, metadata, etc.
Professional Exchange: Digitization (Canadian Heritage Information Network)
CHIN has brought together key digitization resources in the tutorials, best practices and software information on these pages.
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