I work for a local museum in New Zealand. We many periodicals and books we would like to record onto a searchable digital database. We are looking for tips from people who have done this before – is an excel sheet a good system to record location etc?
We would also like to know whether there is an easy way to digitise the actual content from periodicals etc without scanning page-by-page on a home-type scanner. Is there equipment available that can scan a whole magazine easily? Are there any companies offering a digitisation service?
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Hi there,
I believe that most of your questions are covered in our Make it Digital Guides. Start here http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines. The Creating Digital Content section may be particularly useful: http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines/creating-digital-content/
You might find this information from National Library useful also:
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/get-advice/preservation/faq and
http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/get-advice/digital-libraries/introduction-to-digitisation
Our blog outlines some the project process followed by a couple of recent digitisation projects: http://www.digitalnz.org.nz/blog/categories/digitisation
Get in touch with us directly (info@digitalnz.org) and we can give you some contacts of people who have done projects like this.
All the best,
Fiona