Talk:Digital reformatting
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Sophie means wisdom in topic Merging would eliminate redundancy and help users
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No need to merge
editThis page correctly discusses one of the elements of digitizing. The Digitizing page currently discusses mostly the Digital reformatting topic, while omitting other elements of digitizing.
The 'Digitizing' page could be greatly improved by including other elements of the process.
Quoting from the NARA website (digital conversion is known as digital reformatting):
..."digitizing" should be understood not just as the act of scanning an analog document into digital form, but as a series of activities that results in a digital copy being made available to end users via the Internet or other means for a sustained length of time. The activities include:
Document identification and selection Document preparation (including preservation, access review and screening, locating, pulling, and refiling) Basic descriptive and technical metadata collection sufficient to allow retrieval and management of the digital copies and to provide basic contextual information for the user Digital conversion Quality control of digital copies and metadata Providing public access to the material via online delivery of reliable and authentic copies Providing online ordering for reproduction services at quality or quantities beyond the capacity of an end user Maintenance of digital copies and metadata"
Merging would eliminate redundancy and help users
editBoth pages cover very similar ground. There doesn't seem to be an adequate reason to break out the actual media conversion aspect of the process from the process of digitization as a whole. Except (talk) 17:15, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- Agree with merge. Even if one accepts the arguments against a merge (preceding section), then Digital reformatting is a subset of Digitizing, and the latter can easily accommodate the former. Alternatively, they are identical concepts in which case they should certainly be merged. Klbrain (talk) 14:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
- This makes sense. Merging now. Sophie means wisdom (talk) 13:08, 6 November 2016 (UTC)