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Welcome
Introduction
Fundamentals
Costs
Legal issues
Standards & guidelines
Planning
Getting started
Managing images

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Course planner

The course is divided into 9 modules and ideally these and their exercises should be undertaken one at a time, over a period of a week or two. You can if you wish study the modules consecutively in the order provided, or retrieve them individually. However you may find it useful to use the course planner below. This course planner has been designed to help users with specific needs or requests. The course planner asks you to identify your information needs and then suggests sections of the course that can help.


Plan 1

If you have limited time and would like a brief overview of the issues, costs and resources needed for a digitisation project, please see the following:

Introduction

Fundamentals

Costs

Planning

Legal issues


Plan 2

If you would like to prepare a digitisation project plan, we suggest you use the following course resources:

Costs

Planning


Plan 3

If you need to decide wether or not to buy a camera, flat bed scanner or film scanner, we suggest you use the following course resources:

Getting started


Plan 4

If you need a brief overview of the legal and copyright issues pertinent to a digitisation project, the following will be useful:

Legal issues


Plan 5

If you have already purchased hardware and software for a digitisation project and are wondering what to do next, we suggest you view the following:

Introduction

Fundamentals

Planning

Getting started

Standards

Managing Images

Legal issues


Plan 6

If you are preparing to photograph 3D objects the following will be useful:

Introduction

Fundamentals

Costs

Planning

Getting started


Plan 7

If you have already produce a number of digital images and wondering what to do next the following will help you:

Standards

Managing Images

Legal issues


Plan 8

If you are preparing a presentation to persuade a sponsor, trust or board of the merits of digitisation, the following course resources will be useful:

Introduction

Fundamentals

Costs

Planning


Date published: 1 August 2001