Considerations for Digitisation Projects Workshop
Wednesday 24 January, 13:30 – 16:30
5th Floor Seminar Room, Centre for Research Collections, Main Library
Norman Rodger & Susan Pettigrew, CRC
Digitised material forms the foundation of many digital scholarship projects and the impact of decisions taken during the digitisation process can have far-reaching consequences for research.
Led by staff in the Centre for Research Collections this session takes participants through the process of digitising historical documents from the original printed or hand written page to a clean, mark-up ready text file. The session will focus on three very different digitisation projects: the PhD Theses Digitisation Project, The Scottish Session Papers project and the digitisation of the Mahabharata Scroll, each of which presents staff with very different sets of challenges.
Participants will learn how selection decisions are taken, the kinds of challenges different materials can present, how documents are prepared and photographed, how and why document metadata is modelled and created, and how OCR software is used to produce text files from images. A hands-on session, based on the tools being created for The Scottish Session Paper will provide a fascinating and complex case study
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