Standards

AHDS Guide to Good Practice-The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a UK national service funded by the JISC and AHRB to collect, preserve and promote the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the arts and humanities.

Colorado Digitization Program

Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices.pdf One of the best manuals out there.

NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: National Archives and Records Administration, January 1998. .pdf

TASI, The Technical Advisory Service for Images, Creating Digital Images

A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
developed with IMLS support and is maintained by NISO. Planning

AHDS Introduction to Creating Digital Resources

HANDBOOK FOR DIGITAL PROJECTS Northeast Document Conservation Center

Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging for Librariesand Archives Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger is now available in paper published by Research Libraries Group, ISBN 0-9700225-0-6. Online it is set up as a tutorial where I heartlily encourage to go to get more in depth information about the topics we are discussing.

TASI, An introduction to making digital image archives

Introduction to Workflow This is a PDF file from Charles Plesums of the Computer Sciences Corporation. It is for the financial services, but is a good overview of the principals of workflow.

North Carolina ECHO( Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) is another good example of a Digitization Manual from soup to nuts, that emphasizes PLANNING!

Tools

TASI, Toolbox - great file size calculator

AHDS Metadata for your Digital Resource

CDP Project Tool Box This is part of the Colorado Digitization Project's resources available on the web for those digitizing their historical anc cultural collections.

CDP MetaData rsources

Digital Imaging & Media Technology Initiative Resources, University of Illinois.
Excellent resources throughout this site on technical topics as well as copyright, metadata and vocabulary. Check out the Digital Imaging Calculator too.

Dublin Core Services/Describethis an automatic generator of keywords: DCS incorporates now a dictionary of 5300 words in 11 different languages, included Catalan, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Italian, among others, that permits to recognize and generate keywords automatically. The system applies analitic algorithms to find the best terms that better describe a given resource. The new terms generated are added to the ones already included in the document, although these are marked visually to avoid confusions with the terms proposed by the own authors. In the case of the HTML documents that do not have included these type of metadata, the list of generated keywords can be used as a guide and a valid proposal for the publishers and authors of these contents.

RARIN The Rights and Reproduction Information Network (RARIN) is a taskforce of the Registrars Committee - a Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums