Digital Services (DLC)
Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O Box 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.846.3702
UFDC@uflib.ufl.edu

Digital Library Center: Digitization Manual

The Digital Library Center supports and uses the Digital Library of the Caribbean Training Manual, available in English, Spanish, and French, provides in-depth guidance for digitizing documents using flatbed and high-speed scanners, descriptions of a suggested digitization workflow, as well as step-by-step instructions for using the dLOC Toolkit software suite.

All chapters below are in .pdf format:

Section 1 : Project Overview
Section 2 : Recommended Equipment and Software
Section 3 : Software Toolkit
Section 4 : Selection and Copyright
Section 5 : Preparing for Digitization
Section 6 : Basic Theory and Specifications
Section 7 : Scanning
Section 8 : Image Manipulation
Section 9 : Performing Quality Control
Section 10 : Web Presence
Section 11 : Archiving
Section 12 : Reference Resources
Appendix 1 : dLOC Glossary
Appendix 2 : Metadata Overview
Appendix 3 : Toolkit Installation and Configuration

Download the Complete Training Manual in .pdf format.

Digital Library of the Caribbean : Guide to Digitization for Preservation Videos

Using a Flatbed Scanner (in dLOC and YouTube)

For other digitization specifications, see UCF's digitization specifications for Central Florida Memory.

Last modified: Sunday January 15 2012 lnt

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Digital Library Center: Digitization Manual