While we now have mature, proven guidelines (FADGI) which provide solid recommendations on how to create proper master files, beyond targets and the ability measure them, cultural heritage community lacks easily consumable, flexible specifications for conducting actual projects. Moreover, there is a general lack of examples FADGI-compliant Statements Work, leading much re-invention wheel even l...

Traditional approaches for digitizing natural history collections, which include both imaging and metadata capture, are both labour- and time-intensive. Mass-digitization can only be completed if the resource-intensive steps, such as specimen selection and databasing of associated information, are minimized. Digitization of larger collections should employ an "industrial" approach, using the pr...

Texture mapping of 3D digitized data is a challenge. This arises mainly due to two factors: i) digitization of geometry and ii) digitization of textures. First, due to digitization of geometry we have a basket of polygons that represent the digitized object. Second, due to digitization of textures, we get another basket of textures that represent the digitized texture of the whole object. Unfor...

Abstract Complexity and data quality of a project are strongly linked together. The higher the need for better is, more complex projects become. In digitization, various complexity factors have an impact on quality, such as object properties or environmental factors. However, it also largely depends employed technology. Digitization instruments designed specific purposes applications defined sp...

This study proposes an archaeology as a means of exploring the practices by which digitally-encoded resources are generated, circulated, and received. The discussion grapples with the ambiguous relationship between digitizations and their exemplars in the well-known database, Early English Books Online (EEBO), and suggests ways in which digitizations might be analyzed as witnesses of current pe...

The authors pose several stimulating queries with regard to the suitability of the current legal infrastructure to accommodate new and potential demands brought about by mass digitization. Each query is powerfully pursued, suggesting well-argued responses, but also leaving room for other possible solutions. They explain each topic using clear language and an illustration of some of the most per...

In this paper we describe a practical approach to the challenge of linguistic retrodigitization. We propose to distinguish strictly between a base digitization and separate interpretation of the sources. The base digitization only includes a literal electronic transcript of the source. All sources are thus simply treated as strings of characters, i.e. as unstructured corpora. The often complex ...