Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach (American Association for State and Local History)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0759104468 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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The information in this book is useful for digital services professionals, collection managers, curators, museum directors, and exhibit designers. These are extremely challenging issues for libarians. (The Annals Of Iowa)Digital Imaging is directly applicable to library situations. As the title implies, however, the book is solely about imaging and does not include audio and visual streaming. Koelling writes knowlingly about the 'endless struggle to keep the object alive' as preservation issues and image format changes arise. (Sarah Polak Nebraska History) . Next book, Ms. (Sharon Silengo State Historical Society Of North Dakota)Koelling's conversati
Dive In For anyone looking to help preserve records, this book is for you! The world of digital can often be confusing and hard to comprehend. This book helps break down the ins and outs of what you need to do to save your precious documents/photographs etc. to save them from the ravages of time. Whether you are a small town historical society archivist or a family member looking to save your past this book is for all . Info on copyright is outdated Robinesque The copyright notices that this book suggests are a bit overreaching, in terms of the library claiming copyright to public domain images.[][][]
Why does Digital Imaging start with a glossary? So that right from the beginning readers learn to "speak digital." Koelling demystifies the process of planning and managing a digitizing project, including important issues of copyright and ethics, choosing equipment, weighing technical alternatives, and creating databases. Don't miss the last chapter on image enhancementhistory detectives have a great new technique at their fingertips.. These are not the trendy details that will be out of date next month but the core issues everyone needs to understand so they can make good decisions and plan projects with long-term benefits. Koelling reminds us, too, that these projects can be both fun and satisfying to work on
Jill Marie Koelling spent seven and a half years working for the Nebraska State Historical Society as curator of photographs and head of digital imaging. She is now applying her digital imaging expertise as the Executive Director of the Collaborative Digitization Program, housed at the University of Denver.