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Digital Production Workflows
Responsibility: DPU Supervisor, SCARC staff
Once a collection has been selected for digitization, it is assessed for its physical structure, unique identifiers, and preservation issues that might affect the digitization process. If additional preservation concerns are identified, individual items are flagged for exclusion from the digitization process if deemed necessary. Physical scanning issues are noted and scanning decisions are made accordingly. Any added/subtracted items are vetted with DPU Supervisor and/or project sponsors.
Responsibility: DPU Supervisor
The Digitization Guide is an itemized list representing each scan in the collection. The list includes item identifiers (proposed filenames) and, if possible, descriptive information. Also included are scanning instructions for anomalies.
Step 3: Calibrate Monitors, Scanners, camera
Responsibility: DPU Supervisor
- Build scanner settings
Responsibility: DPU Supervisor
- Explain collection structure
- Handling procedures
- Common issues with collection
- Make initial capture assessment
- Scanning specs
Responsibility: DPU Supervisor, DPU Staff, DPU Student Technician
- 1stPass (DPU Student Tech)
- Look for visual errors (clipping, banding, blocking, color fidelity)
- Check resolution
- Check color profile
- 2ndPass (DPU Supervisor)
- Verify scan (clipping, banding, blocking, color fidelity)
- Verify resolution
- Verify color profile
- Justify digital file list from production server against itemized spreadsheet [Digitization Guide] (see step 2)
- Resolve discrepancies
- Missing image files
- Misnamed file
- Technical metadata enhancement (MIX for images)
- JHOVE identification and validation
- MD5 checksums prior to file movement
Responsibility: DPU Supervisor
- Archival TIFF’s (preservation masters)
- Moved off scanning workstations to production server nightly
- Moved to dark storage once project is completed