There are many pros to digitizing an Image collection. The main advantage is that you centralize a collection and instead of having hard copies of negatives and greying photos of different sizes. You can have all pictures on a CD or hard disk or server. And the requester or researcher can have the pictures within minutes of requesting their need for pictures.
However, one of the cons of digitization is which Electronic conversion management system will you decide to put all the pictures on.
Who will do all the conversion?
How you will convert all the images?
What criteria will you use to define the duplicate singularization?
Who will index and catalogue the collection?
An additional problem is how the original images came to you in the first place, were they already indexed, catalogued, tagged, and described/captioned in full?
If indeed you are able to answer the above mentioned questions, then you are ready to embark on your digitization project.
Digitizing Images is a Librarian's electronic archiving project, the most successful part is being able to retrieve the images after scanning and storage.
However, one of the cons of digitization is which Electronic conversion management system will you decide to put all the pictures on.
Who will do all the conversion?
How you will convert all the images?
What criteria will you use to define the duplicate singularization?
Who will index and catalogue the collection?
An additional problem is how the original images came to you in the first place, were they already indexed, catalogued, tagged, and described/captioned in full?
If indeed you are able to answer the above mentioned questions, then you are ready to embark on your digitization project.
Digitizing Images is a Librarian's electronic archiving project, the most successful part is being able to retrieve the images after scanning and storage.
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