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Digital
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Whether
it's a large multi-collection museum or a small historical society,
digital archiving is an essential way to preserve historical images
and documents. Entire collections can be published on a single CD-ROM
or DVD for storage and presentation. This decreases the need to handle
original photographs and documents and allows archivists to safely preserve
collections for future generations. As you all know, time degrades
the integrity of many of the materials in your historic archives. Digitizing
your collection will preserve the existing materials and many items
can also be digitally enhanced and restored to improve the quality of
the material.
Through
a computer program front end, similar to the Bentley Digital archives,
your Historical Society's archives will be more accessible to the public
and searchable through predefined keywords.
The
archives could be categorized by date, geographical location, event
or other criteria.
Other
ideas could be to offer a version for sale to cover the cost of archiving,
or to make the archives available on a touchscreen kiosk in your Historical
Society’s Museum, archives or town hall.
The
cost for such a project would start as low as $2,500 to help evaluate
the Society's archives and build a computer program to access the extensive
collection. Text could be digitized and converted to searchable
text for $1.00 to $4.00 per page depending on the quantity and format
(bound or individual pages). Digitizing of images or other items in
the archives would cost $3.00 to $8.00 each depending on size and quantity.
Although,
some material could be digitized by your Historical Society representatives
to economize on costs, we would still need to process the “pre-scanned”
images to certain specifications.
After
the initial evaluation your Historical Society could offer a Video presentation
and or a slide show at various different locations in your town to generate
support for the archive project. This support can come in the form of
donations to the project and also an opportunity to pre sell a finished
retail product.
There
will be considerable time involved in planning and categorizing as well
as the actual digitizing. Some additional options for the computer program
could be: video presentations, slide shows & /or narration, interactive
timeline, genealogical information or other ideas.
You
may also want to consider in the planning an edited version that may
be available for sale through your Historical Society.
Some
steps to get started:
The
first step is to organize the collection by category and priority.
Once
a “completed” version is approved by your Historical Society, WMS will
supply 3 copies to your Historical Society.
 "Hats
off to Peter Wolf Photo-Graphics/Wolf Multimedia Studio. The Jericho
based Multimedia Studio has been presented with a Silver AXIEM ("Absolute
Excellence in Electronic Media") Award for the production of the
Wilson Bentley Digital Archives (Volume 1) CD-ROM. The national award
was given in the educational interactive media category. The Bentley
CD-ROM competed against more than 1300 submissions from all 50 states
to capture this prestigious award. Peter has spent countless hours compiling
thousands of Bentley images and documents, and transferring them to
a digital format. Besides the archival benefits of the program, Peter
also created a wonderful educational (and fun) interactive biography
of Bentley's life and work. Visit the "Snowflake" Bentley
Exhibit at the Old Red Mill, in Jericho, to take a test run of the program
at the newly completed, touch screen kiosk (or check the Bentley Website
at
http://snowflakebentley.com/
). It has quickly become a favorite
with tourists and locals alike. Congratulations Peter, GREAT JOB!!!!!!
"
Ray
Miglionico -Archivist for the Jericho Historical Society
Peter
Wolf Photo-Graphics (PWPG)
is a high quality photography and digital graphic studio located in
Jericho, Vermont just 15 minutes from Burlington. We specialize
in industrial, advertising and promotional (musicians, artisans) photography,
in our studio or on location. Wolf Multimedia Studio (WMS) can
bring together your images, audio, video, text and other content into
interactive multimedia presentations for CD- ROM and Internet distribution.
We can help you with your catalogs, brochures, sales sheets, web pages
and any promotional material that needs to show your product or service
in a sharp, professional image. With over 20 years of professional photography
experience and 10 years of digital imaging experience, PWPG & WMS
can creatively help you conceptualize your ideas, recommend the
most cost effective approach, and complete a high quality job with in
tight deadlines (ie: "I need this yesterday").
Some
of PWPG's capabilities include photography formats from 35mm to 4x5,
product/promotional photography, group & individual portraits,
photo retouching/restoration, super custom black & white photo printing,
quantity B & W and color photo prints, color laser copies
(CLC 500), dye dub proofs, thermal wax transfers, flat art and 35mm
slide scanning for print or web publishing. Newly added services include
digital video input/output conversion, and multimedia production. PWPG
& WMS are constantly adding and refining services to satisfy our
clients imaging needs.
contact
Peter
Wolf
Producer
Wilson
Bentley Digital Archives
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