The following are links to museum-specific Digitization standards and specifications. Use these examples as a guide for creating your own internal standards and specifications of digital assets.
Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: A How-To Guide
Canadian Heritage Information Network:
This manual assists museums, archives and independent researchers in digitizing their existing collections of intangible heritage-related material. Aside from providing step-by-step digital transferring instructions, it also offers definitions for heritage-related terminologies, as well as a significant number of technological terminologies.
Digital Preservation
Canadian Heritage Information Network:
Browse resources aimed at helping cultural heritage institutions preserve their digital assets. Use items in the digital preservation toolkit to take stock of digital assets, to develop digital preservation policy and plans, and to implement digital preservation procedures.
Digitization
Canadian Heritage Information Network:
Consult resources aimed at helping cultural heritage institutions manage the digitization of their collections. Learn about existing standards and guidelines to ensure artefacts are scanned or photographed correctly.
Digitizing Collections
Smithsonian Institution Archives:
In order to broaden access to the Archives’ collections, and reduce the impact of frequent handling, the Archives is digitizing its most valuable and used collections. High-resolution surrogates of the Archives’ digitized collections are created and available online for researchers, scholars and the public to view, and download for personal and educational purposes. A portion of our digitized holdings are placed in the Smithsonian Transcription Center where volunteers help to transcribe these original, handwritten documents online.