Digitisation: Methods, Tools and Technology

Jagdish Arora (INFLIBNET, Ahmedabad, India)

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Source title: Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives

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Arora, Jagdish. "Digitisation: Methods, Tools and Technology." Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives. IGI Global, 2010. 40-63. Web. 18 May. 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-767-1.ch003

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Arora, J. (2010). Digitisation: Methods, Tools and Technology. In T. Ashraf, J. Sharma, & P. Gulati (Eds.), Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives (pp. 40-63). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-767-1.ch003

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Arora, Jagdish. "Digitisation: Methods, Tools and Technology." In Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives, ed. Tariq Ashraf, Jaideep Sharma and Puja Anand Gulati, 40-63 (2010), accessed May 18, 2013. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-767-1.ch003

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This chapter provides a practical approach to digital libraries. The authors present a comprehensive picture of digitization and explains the process of digitization in a step-by-step approach. The chapter also describes different file formats and alternatives to digitization.

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