Capturing Quality Images of Visual Resources
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By 1998 sources for instruction in digitizing text or
text and images existed and were growing. But none specifically dealt
with the challenges of two- and three-dimensional, as well as
color-intensive, materials—such as original photographs,
prints, drawings, maps. To address this need, the Digital Library
Federation, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and RLG
created an editorial board of experts to review the state of the art in
digital imaging of visual resources.
These experts were charged to identify imaging
technologies and practices for visual resources that could be
documented and recommended. The group arrived at a set of guides in the
science of imaging—objective measures for image qualities and
how they can be controlled in various aspects of the imaging process.
DLF and CLIR then commissioned board-recommended authors to work with
the detailed outlines the board had created. Together, we published the
resulting guides on the Web in 2000.
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