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Technical Strategies for Digitization for Museum Applications

Alan Newman, Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Session: Technical Strategies in Imaging

Museums are increasingly using digital imaging as a companion to and a replacement for conventional analog photography. The uses of digital images include multimedia and web publishing, pre-press lithography, reference in collection management, conservation documentation and desktop video. Often a digital image can be enhanced to actually make the representation of the museum object more "realistic".

This workshop will explore the technical strategies of digitization for museum applications and present the various tools for image capture and quality evaluation as well as how to capitalize on in-house resources.

Image capture strategies, tools and techniques.
Imaging standards organizations and resources
Image storage, access and versioning
High end digital cameras and scanners evaluated: image quality and work flow
What can be done at the lower end?
Slide scanner automated workflow
Portable digital cameras applications
Location and in situ imaging of objects
Gallery views
Publicity
Quick imaging for the web
Scanning film vs. direct capture
When can we do without film?
How do we get back to film?, i.e. slides, transparencies
Lighting systems for digital photography
Overview of digital watermarking systems
Imaging for press vs. imaging for screen
Overview of color management systems for the beginner.
How to protect legacy files
Using desktop image cataloguers to:
- manage small projects
- generate image metadata to download into enterprise systems
- create simple web image catalogues
- prototype designs for larger systems
Useful color printers for in-house applications
Color Laserjet
Fujix Pictrography
Inkjet