"C" is for Conversion

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+ Jill Hurst-Wahl 2 years ago
Sarasin, BTW it would be great if you could post photos in your blog of the machines at customer sites. You don’t need a lot of text with them. Those photos can tell powerful stories.
+ Jill Hurst-Wahl 2 years ago
Sarasin, I did mention other vendors and machines. (My slides these days do not contain all of the content from my presentations.) My goal for those specific slides (and a few others) was to talk about the breadth of conversion activities, especially in who is doing it.

BTW an underlying theme was our history of doing conversion ourselves in-house, and the reasons why and why not it is appropriate. Part of my goal is always to get people to think about outsourcing, even though they may not do it.
+ guest8a315b 2 years ago
Hi Jill,

I am your fan. Always follow your blog and presentations.

As for the scanning part, u may consider mentioning BookDrives from Atiz.

Due to its relatively inexpensive price, hundreds of libraries around the world are using it to digitize millions of books. Probably a lot more installments than other brands mentioned in the slide page 13-14.

Sarasin
Atiz Innovation
www.atiz.com
+ guest8a315b 2 years ago
Hi Jill,

I am your fan. Always follow your blog and presentations.

As for the scanning part, u may consider mentioning BookDrives from Atiz.

Due to its relatively inexpensive price, hundreds of libraries around the world are using it to digitize millions of books. Probably a lot more installments than other brands mentioned in the slide page 13-14.

Sarasin

Atiz Innovation

www.atiz.com

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I began my first digitization project around 1990, as a corporate librarian, and have focused heavily on digitization since 1998. Today many organizations are creating digital assets in order to increase access to information. Institutions such as banks, R&D organizations, pharmaceutical companies, art museums, historical societies, and academic libraries are benefitting from digitizing their materials.

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"C" is for Conversion - Presentation Transcript

“ C” is for Conversion Jill Hurst-Wahl Sept. 17, 2008
Background Scanning/ Conversion DIY & Punk Q&A iSchool, Students & the Profession
What Is Digitization?
- Digitization is the process of converting analog information into digital format.
- The goal of digitization is improve access to the materials. To that end, many digitized materials become searchable via databases on the Internet.
Photo by Helen Black
Photo by Stan Wiechers
Four Areas in a Digitization Program
- Scope
- Selection
- “ Scanning”
- Sustainability
Scanning / Conversion
Photo by Mike_1630
- Scanning
- Imaging
- Digitizing
- Converting
Photos by cobalt123 , mushroom and rooster , & nate steiner .
- What is being converted?
- How will the conversion occur?
- Who will do the conversion?
- Where will the conversion be done?
- How will the digital assets be described, stored and accessed?
Northern NY Library Network Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Kirtas Technologies 4DigitalBooks
Kirtas Technologies Internet Archive (below)
Guiding Principles
- Best Practices
- Guidelines
- Standards
- Conversion is not creative, but routine.
Who is doing the converting?
- Internal digitization labs
- Small & large businesses
- People who handle routine tasks well (to specifications)
- Not…
Separate Steps, Separate Locations
- Clean-up
- OCR
- Quality control
- Quality assurance
Conversion as a DIY Activity
Punk & DIY
- Forget “the system”
- Self-reliant
- Skills can be learned
- Those with a little skills can contribute
- An expert’s skills are not unique
- Freedom to create
- Pros
- Cons
Solution: Weigh the costs & impact on quality
The iSchool, Students & the Profession
- Connect
- Bring / ingest
- Bridge
- Introduce
- Recruit
- Work
- Research
Photo by cindiann
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
- [email_address]
- Meebo & Skype: jill.hurst.wahl