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Digitisation of Heritage Materials (DOHM)
While most large cultural institutions are capable of setting up digitisation programs of their own, many smaller organisations or groups struggle with covering significant initial costs and trying to acquire the knowledge required to run a successful digitisation project. Obviously, commercial solutions are available but they tend to be expensive and aimed at the upper end of the market – organisations that can afford to purchase professional equipment, software and expertise.
Recognising these difficulties, the National Library explored possible alternatives and in due course developed a basic training program in digital copying and archiving of still images. The objective of the program is to provide participants with practical skills to capture, manage, preserve and provide access to digital images. The course's aim is to teach best digitisation techniques and practices using the least expensive options currently available. We believe that recent advances in technology permit the successful running of digitisation projects on a very tight budget.
Initially, a very successful pilot training course was held in June 2007 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra. It included a full day of theory and another full day of hands-on modules. The Library provided all materials and digitisation equipment. Since then, multiple DOHM seminars were held at various institutions across Australia. In December 2008 staff of the National Library of Indonesia had an opportunity to learn more about archival digitisation through the DOHM seminar held in Jakarta.
The DOHM Training Materials are available for download at no cost and are licensed by the National Library of Australia under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence.![]()
DOHM Software and Training Material Downloads
DOHM Training Material - 40 Mb - updated 21 October 2011
Introduction to Digital Imaging - 31 Mb - updated 2 November 2011
Introduction to Colour Management - 12 Mb - updated 2 November 2011
Other Software:
Color Camera Calibrator (CoCa) - ver1.5, updated 15 November 2010
DRIFTT, DNG-enabled RAW Image Format To TIFF Converter - ver3.0, updated 25 Aug 2010
