From the Book - Research Collections
Should endangered books and archives be filmed or digitized?
Requirements for film quality and film organization with reference to the option of film digitization
Choice and quality of film
Organization and documentation of filming
Suggestions on choice of system
Digitization of existing films that, for one reason or another, do not meet these requirements
Differing recommendations for color microfilm
Recommendations for the digitization of microfilm
Software requirements for image viewing
Hardware requirements for image viewing
Long-term preservation of the digital conversion form (migration)
Digitization and optical character recognition
Microfilm and digital storage formats as compatible media
Tests on compatibility and reproduction quality
Printing out from digitized storage onto film (image)
Should filming or digitizing come first?
Digitizing from the original
Criteria for the choice of system
Requirements for image viewing software
Requirements for image viewing hardware
Differing recommendations on color images
Cooperation and exchange of information.
