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A shifting relationship: Digitisation standards and advances in display and capture technologies
Journal of Digital Media Management,
7
(3),
246-255
(2019)
Abstract
Digitisation standards are an essential part of digital content production for libraries, archives and museums to ensure quality and accurate digital reproductions. Viewing environments, whether high-definition televisions, wide-gamut computer displays or mobile devices, play a central role in the user’s experience with digital collections. Digitisation standards and viewing environments have a shared history, along with photographic and digital capture technology. This paper examines the historical and current connections between digitisation standards and advances in viewing and digital capture technologies, and it suggests that although closely related, the impact of these technologies on digitisation standards has generally waned since the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Keywords: digitisation standards; digital content; digital reproductions; viewing environments; history; digital capture
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Author's Biography
David Mindel is the Digital Collections Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. His research interests include digitisation with a focus on quality and affordability, image manipulation related to digital image restoration, and the relationship between digital access and digital preservation of cultural heritage materials. He has an MA in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has previously worked as a digital conversion specialist at the Library of Congress.
