D2.1 Advanced Digitization Tool Kit

This Advanced Digitization Tool Kit (ADTK) offers a comprehensive and tested set of best practice documents intended to inform the digitization of film materials, photographs, and text documents in film heritage institutions, archives, and libraries.

In VHH it serves as a collection of guidelines and checklists for the researchers and archival institutions involved to undertake systematic research and advanced digitization of heritage materials to be used in the project.
The purpose of this document is to

  • inform the selection of the most suitable technical elements for digitization;
  • guide the selection of the most appropriate digitization workflow;
  • guide the creation of appropriate documentation.

The ADTK comprises the following tools:

Tool #1 Principles & Manual | p. 1-8.
Tool #2 Checklist Archival Research | p. 9-14.
Tool #3 Checklist Memorial Research | p. 15-20.
Tool #4 Checklist Holocaust Photos Research | p. 21-27.
Tool #5 Guideline Film Digitization | p. 28-44.
Tool #6 Checklist Film Digitization | p. 45-51.
Tool #7 Guideline Film Access Copies | p. 52-68.
Tool #8 Guideline Text and Image Digitization | p. 69-92.
Tool #9 Checklist Text and Image Digitization | p. 93-101.
Tool #10 Guideline Citavi | p. 102-111.
Tool #11 Quality Control Form Text and Image Digitization | p. 112-115.

Main Author(s):

Tool #1: OFM (Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #2: LBI (Ingo Zechner, Sema Colpan, Jakob Zenzmaier)
Tool #3: JLU (Ulrike Koppermann)
Tool #4: JLU (Ulrike Koppermann)
Tool #5: OFM (Claudio Santancini, Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #6: OFM (Claudio Santancini, Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #7: OFM (Claudio Santancini, Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #8: LBI (Vrääth Öhner)
Tool #9: LBI (Ingo Zechner, Vrääth Öhner, Sema Colpan)
Tool #10: LBI (Alexander Prenninger)
Tool #11: LBI (Ingo Zechner)

Contributor(s):

Tool #1: OFM (Claudio Santancini)
Tool #2: JLU (Ulrike Koppermann)
Tool #3: LBI (Ingo Zechner)
Tool #4: LBI (Ingo Zechner)
Tool #5: –
Tool #6: –
Tool #7: –
Tool #8: LBI (Ingo Zechner, Joachim Schätz); JLU (Ulrike Koppermann)
Tool #9: LBI (Joachim Schätz); JLU (Ulrike Koppermann)
Tool #10: TUW (Sebastian Hofstätter)
Tool #11: LBI (Vrääth Öhner)

Reviewer(s):

Tool #1: LBI (Ingo Zechner)
Tool #2: OFM (Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #3: OFM (Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #4: OFM (Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #5: LBI (Ingo Zechner)
Tool #6: LBI (Ingo Zechner)
Tool #7: LBI (Ingo Zechner)
Tool #8: OFM (Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #9: OFM (Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #10: LBI (Ingo Zechner); OFM (Michael Loebenstein)
Tool #11: JLU (Ulrike Koppermann); OFM (Michael Loebenstein)

Version (No., Date):

Tool #1: V1.6, 2019-12-31
Tool #2: V1.6, 2019-12-31
Tool #3: V1.7, 2019-12-31
Tool #4: V1.3, 2019-12-31
Tool #5: V1.6, 2019-12-31
Tool #6: V1.7, 2019-12-31
Tool #7: V1.5, 2019-12-31
Tool #8: V1.15, 2019-12-31
Tool #9: V1.13, 2019-12-31
Tool #10: V1.5, 2019-12-31
Tool #11: V1.5, 2019-12-31


WP2 Curation and advanced digitisation of assets
Task 2.1 Definition of advanced digitisation standards
D2.1
V1.6
31.12.2019