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Preservation Services : Digitization services

Digitization services

The digital revolution has made it possible to bring a variety of collections together online, increasing their visibility and access. We help your organization join this revolution. We scan your microfilm, microfiche or original material to create high-quality digital items, revealing your collections to a much wider audience.

Over the past decade, we have participated in large-scale digital conversion projects like the Library of Congress’ National Digital Library Project and the National Digital Newspaper Program. This experience, combined with our state-of-the-art facilities, has helped us become a leading provider of innovative solutions to the challenges and intricacies of scanning retrospective material including rare, fragile and often unique, original items.

High-quality scanning to your specifications
Our fully implemented scanning studio is equipped to provide high-quality scanning of unique retrospective research materials. Our quality assurance professionals check and recheck the quality, legibility and accuracy of scanned files, which can be delivered to most specifications for resolution, processing, organization, file naming, file format and delivery media.

Promoting longevity with metadata collection and TIFF archival files
We can help you ensure that your materials persist through the creation and application of customer-specified preservation metadata. OCLC is an active participant in the formation of international metadata standards and best practices for long-term digital retention.

CONTENTdm repository builder
We will set up and build the collection including all the access files. We can handle various levels of metadata or it can be added later by you.

We can process files for CONTENTdm using METS/ALTO output from docWORKS software—the OCR automation tool utilized by PSC.

Additional services

  • Audio and video conversions
  • Reprints
  • Digital to microfilm
  • Mark-up for XML or TEI
  • Re-keying for 99%+ accuracy

If you have a specific project in mind and want us to create a proposal, fill out an Project Questionnaire or contact us to help us assess your needs.