Digital Archives
Toolkit.

This guide provides warnings and suggestions for resolutions and scanning practices for photographs or images. Digitizing photographs can be as simple as scanning the image, but to make sure it's the best quality, be sure to check the style of photograph and it's size to ensure your best result.

This document outlines the practices used at the Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information at the University of Nebraska.

This guide provides suggestions for resolutions and scanning practices for text documents. Text documents can include any sort of printed matter including handwritten, typewritten, or printed documents, and can often be accompanied by images.

This guide from UW-Madison Archives and Record Management gives guidelines for determining if digitization of documents is appropriate, as well as planning for a digital imaging program.

This guide goes through the steps to take to digitize audio cassette tapes. Although cassettes are now considered obsolete, many places will still have some pieces of their history contained on these materials. This document guides you through each step to preserve those tapes, as well as recommendations for cassette to MP3 converters.

This guide provides suggestions for converting VHS tapes to a digital format. Having access to a VCR player is key.

This presentation from the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University Libraries, provides an introduction to video digitization and best practices for planning digitization projects.

This document provides notes from our testing phase of the digitization portion of this project, and findings about the process.