Digitising Your Collection – Part 3 Technical Specifications

This resource is part of a series about developing your own digitisation program. In the series they talking about: project planning; technical specifications; handling the archives; scanning tips; file storage, and; metadata and access.

Much of this advice is based on experiences at State Records and they use examples of State Records practices along the way.

This resource will take you through the technical specification of a digitisation project. This covers image capture, some useful ‘tech talk’ definitions and file management, including storage and file types.