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[Re]building the digitisation lab at the University of Tennessee Libraries: A framework for success
Journal of Digital Media Management,
8
(4),
361-377
(2020)
Abstract
Drawing on the experience of the University of Tennessee Libraries, this article provides a framework to aid institutions with their decision making when building or expanding still-image digitisation services. Factors, such as construction, purchasing and deployment are discussed from an equipment-neutral, project management perspective to provide administrators, managers, and technicians with a common language and roadmap to success.
Keywords: digitisation; digital production lab; digital imaging; workflows; digitisation equipment
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Author's Biography
Jeremy D. Moore is the digital media specialist in the University Libraries’ Digital & Web Services department and lecturer in photography in the School of Art & Design at Texas State University. He has over 20 years’ experience in photography and a decade in managing digitisation labs and grant projects. Previously, he was the Digital Imaging Lab manager in the University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit.
Louisa Trott is the Digital Projects Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she was previously project manager for the Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project. She holds an MA in film archiving from the University of East Anglia, and an MS in information sciences from the University of Tennessee. She has worked in various roles at film archives and libraries in the UK and USA, and is the co-founder of the Tennessee Archive for Moving Image and Sound in Knoxville.
