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Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials
Shared best practices for still image materials followed by agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI). The latest update in 2023...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-06-13
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Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide
A practical guide that demonstrates the usage of georeferencing best practices applied to different scenarios or types of locality description one might encounter when in the...
- Language: engspa
- Created: 2025-05-29
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Code of Ethics and Professional Practices for Collections Professionals
Codes of ethics that are specifically tailored for the activities and responsibilities of collections professionals. This code of ethics is part of the American Alliance of...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-06-12
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Guide to Digital Photography & Conservation Documentation
Provides best practices for digital photography, including topics about: workflow, equipment, camera settings, image processing, storage and backup, and photographic techniques... -
Digital Images Are Data: And Should Be Treated as Such
Author's manuscript of an article published in Methods Mol Biol. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-056-4_1). This makes a point that digital images are data and thus should...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-06-11
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Avoiding Twisted Pixels: Ethical Guidelines for the Appropriate Use and...
Author Manuscript of the article published in Sci Eng Ethics (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-010-9201-y). This manuscript describes guidelines for the ethical use and...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-06-11
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Smart Shooter
Remote shooting camera software. One aspect that makes it useful for digitizing collections is that it can read different types of barcodes directly from the photo and include...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-03-28
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Specify 6
Desktop application for a collection management system, part of a suite of software developed by the Specify Collections Consortium. It can be used for free using the open-...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-07-24
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Specify 7
Web-based collection management system, part of a suite of software developed by the Specify Collections Consortium. It can be used for free using the open-source installation...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-07-24
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OpticalLimits
Sites that specialize in the review of camera lenses and provide an understanding of the quality of these lenses at particular settings.
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-05-22
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Handbook of best practice and standards for 2D+ and 3D imaging of natural...
List and describe a comprehensive number of techniques for the digitization of 2D and 3D objects in natural history collections. It highlights the weak and strong points of each...
- Created: 2025-07-17
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Digital Photography Review
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Inselect - Source Code
A desktop application that helps with the automation of processing specimen images from whole-drawer scans. It combines several steps in the processing and management of images...
- Created: 2025-07-16
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Inselect
A desktop application that helps with the automation of processing specimen images from whole-drawer scans. It combines several steps in the processing and management of images...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-07-16
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Shining Light on Labels in the Dark: Guidelines for Offensive Collections Materials
This article provides guidelines on how to deal with offensive language present in labels and images of collections in a way that both preserves historical integrity and...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-07-16
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LightingBug: Transforming Insect Digitization
Insect digitization project main page that focuses on semi-automated label transcription and 3d photogrammetry. There are several pages providing a description of the project,...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-07-09
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Smithsonian Institution Archives - Digitizing Collections
The resource details technical specifications and standards followed by the Smithsonian Institution Archives for the digitization of still images, audiovisual, and video.
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-06-13
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Preservation Guidelines for Digitizing Library Materials
This resource from the Library of Congress provides a set of guidelines for the care and handling of collection materials during the digitization process. It outlines... -
Digital Imaging: Ethics
This document provides a collection of guidelines regarding the ethical acquisition and manipulation of files. This helps to avoid manipulating images in a way that is...
- Language: eng
- Created: 2025-06-10
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Audiovisual Core Term List
The Audiovisual Core Term List is a comprehensive metadata standard that defines controlled vocabularies for describing biodiversity-related multimedia resources (images, audio,...