General Information
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- Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections: A NISO Recommended Practice. National Information Standards Organization, 2007.
- Digital Library Federation, accessed Nov. 2025.
- Society for Imaging Science and Technology, accessed Nov. 2025.
- Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, accessed Nov. 2025.
- Standards for Web Content Interoperability. Open Archives Initiative, accessed Nov. 2025.
- Toward Digitizing All Forms of Documentation. George Landon, D-Lib Magazine Vol. 15 No. 3/4, 2009.
- Why Digitize? Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
Guidelines and Best Practices
- Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials, 3rd edition. Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, Still Image Working Group, 2023.
- Digitization Workflow and Guidelines. Ahmed Abu-Zayed, University of Exeter, 2009.
- Digitizing Speech Recordings for Archival Purposes. Bartek Plichta and Mark Kornbluh, MATRIX (Michigan State University), 2002.
- Good practices in digitisation. MinervaEC, accessed Nov. 2025.
- Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), 2002.
- Guidelines for Digital Images: CDL Digital File Format Recommendations. California Digital Library, 2011.
- Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collections: Digitization Best Practices for Audio. Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, 2009.
- Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000.
- Imaging systems, standards for accuracy and durability (Chapter 434-663 WAC). Washington State Legislature, 2000.
- Mass Digitization of Books. Karen Coyle, Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 32 No. 6, 2006.
- Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. Cornell University Library, accessed Nov. 2025.
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- Requirements for the Destruction of Paper Records after Imaging “Plan to Scan”. Washington State Archives, 2024.
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- Digital Preservation Assessment Handbook. Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2019.
- Digital Readiness Toolkit. Recollection Wisconsin, accessed Nov. 2025.
- Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes. MinervaEC, 2008.
- Preservation Guidelines for Digitizing Library Materials. Library of Congress, accessed Nov. 2025.
Project Planning
- Reformatting: 6.6 Preservation and Selection for Digitization. Janet Gertz, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), accessed Nov. 2025.
- Best Practices and Planning for Digitization Projects. Alyce L. Scott, OCLC Web Junction, 2018.
- Guidelines for digitization projects for collections and holdings in the public domain, particularly those held by libraries and archives. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2002.