{"id":601,"date":"2017-08-14T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pafaarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:18:14","slug":"imls-project-archivist-lessons-learned-digitization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/behind-the-scenes\/imls-project-archivist-lessons-learned-digitization\/","title":{"rendered":"IMLS Project Update: Lessons Learned (Digitization)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Contributed by: Tess Amram, IMLS Project Archivist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So many lessons learned from this project about digitization! I came into it a complete novice to the practice, and over 3500 images later, I think I\u2019ve got a handle on the basics, at least. I\u2019d only ever used a scanner for text-based documents and the occasional photograph, but I\u2019d never had to scan to archival standards before, so the training I got at the beginning of the project was vital. Understanding the choice of color profiles and dpi to scan with, and Hoang\u2019s explanations of debates among archivists on the topic, definitely helped me get a grasp on what the end result should look like, and what it would be used for.<\/p>\n<p>If I could go back and start it all over again, I would definitely, definitely make sure the scanner was as calibrated as it could be before I got started. The main issue I ran into while digitizing was that of color \u2013 although the bulk of the images are black and white, the photographs are very old and most have gone yellow or red with age, whereas the scanner was producing images with a distinct green tinge. This was relatively easy to correct, by adjusting histograms before scanning, or doing a bit of a touch-up in Photoshop afterwards if necessary, but color correction took up a lot of valuable scanning time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by: Tess Amram, IMLS Project Archivist So many lessons learned from this project about digitization! I came into it a complete novice to the practice, and over 3500 images later, I think I\u2019ve got a handle on the basics, at least. I\u2019d only ever used a scanner for text-based documents and the occasional photograph, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,40,5],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-collection","category-digital-archives","category-grant","tag-imls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pafaarchives.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}