[Wactclc-alma] Newspaper digitization recommendations?

[Thomas, Kirsti]

Clare,

I immediately thought of the Archives Dept. at Washington State Library as a possible source of info and advice.

Digging through the website, I found out there's an Imaging & Preservation Service<https://www.sos.wa.gov/archives/imaging_digitize.aspx> that can perform scanning of paper materials. Page says:

"For pricing information please contact Imaging and Preservation Services at (360) 586-0108"

They may also have recommendations for OCR (optical character recognition) and recommendations to find grant funding for OCR. You'll need to translate the scanned image to text so everything is accessible for screenreaders. Getting accessible text that's not full of errors out of the scanning project may be the most complicated part.


It will be ok!

Kirsti S. Thomas (Hear my first name<namedrop.io/kirstithomas>)
Library Technical Services Manager & Systems Librarian
Seattle Colleges
kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu





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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Newspaper digitization recommendations?

Hi all,

Edmonds College has a print collection of student newspapers, and I'm researching options for digitizing and creating an institutional repository for them. If any of you have undertaken a project like this, did you work with an outside vendor for the digitization/scanning piece? And if so, do you have any recommendations for companies that can provide this type of service? I can look around on my own, but I figured I'd ask the group first to avoid reinventing the wheel here! Beyond that, what type of software did you use to create your collection? ContentDm? Omeka? Something else?

Any general words of wisdom (or caution) would be much appreciated.

Clare

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Clare Bryant

Associate Director of Collection Services and Library Systems

Edmonds College Library

425.640.1855



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