This article frames digitization as a knowledge organization practice in libraries and museums. The primarily discriminatory practices of museums are compared with the non-discriminatory practices of libraries when managing their respective cultural heritage collections. Digitization of cultural heritage brings new practices, tools and arenas that reconfigure and reinterpret not only the collec...

The study assessed the opinions of the Pakistani library experts in terms of: organization for digitization work (execution of digitization work & staffing patterns); funding patterns; and access patterns for digitization projects. The study opted qualitative research design and indepth interviews were conducted to collect the data from purposely selected library experts from different parts of...

In this paper we present conditions which guarantee that every digitization process preserves important topological and di erential geometric properties. These conditions also allow us to determine the correct digitization resolution for a given class of real objects. Knowing that these properties are invariant under digitization, we can then use them in feature-based recognition. Moreover, the...

University libraries around the world are digitizing their information resources to offer online access to remote users. However, digitization projects in developing countries face the challenges of standardization and sustainability. The purpose of this study was to assess the opinion of the library experts of Pakistan in terms of: Adoption of standards/best practices in digitization projects;...

Document digitization and Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR) are techniques that are used for handling document images. Several techniques were implemented to perform document digitization. Article reconstruction is one of the main applications of document digitization. The four major steps of article reconstruction are grouping the article bodies, detecting the reading order, title body p...

This paper describes and illustrates five major clusters of related tasks (herein referred to as task clusters) that are common to efficient and effective practices in the digitization of biological specimen data and media. Examples of these clusters come from the observation of diverse digitization processes. The staff of iDigBio (The U.S. National Science Foundation's National Resource for Ad...

Digitization and its effect on employment has been discussed within the discipline of Information Systems (IS) for a long time. The net effect of digitization on job creation and job loss has never been clear. However, it seems obvious that today's IS and the accompanying digitization of data and processes may destroy jobs among knowledge workers just as automation replaced the need for manufac...

This paper presents digitization as a means of preservation of manuscripts. It discusses the hard ware and soft ware available for digitization. A complete overview of digitization process has also been explained.

This paper reports on the implementation of digitization of resources at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN); the processes involved and the challenges faced. In the context of the establishment of a digital library in University of Nigeria, the study aimed to: establish progress that has been made by UNN in digitizing their resources; report the process of digitizing these materials; find ...

While the digitization of the business landscape provides firms with numerous business opportunities, it has severely disrupted established business practices of many traditional “offline businesses.” To shed light on the disruptive nature of digitization and the challenges that it entails for traditional offline businesses, we draw on path dependence theory to examine how digitization disrupts...