Digitization Standards and Tips

Documentation from the Digital Library Center, University of Tennessee Libraries

Scan items at 400ppi on long edge (refer to UT Digitization Standards--link above--for specifics based on object type)
Save as .tif file
Use filename as detailed on Filenaming Schemes pages

Primary Image
- 800 pixel max on the longest dimension
- Quality level = 80
Thumbnail Image
- Max width of 170; max height 250
- If one dimension is < 100 pixels, the other must be >= 150
Mini-thumbs (for cross-format searching)
- 170 pixel max on the longest dimension
OCR’d Text
- Each should be named the same as the tif page from which it was created – but with a different extension. .jpg for each of the images (put in directories: JPEG thumbs minithumbs) And .txt for the OCR’d text (put in directory: ocr ) These subdirectories should be created in the directory of the parent object, such as in 00, 01, etc.

00: (image files, one per metadata record) jpegs, thumbs, minithumbs
01: (image files, several per metadata record) jpegs, thumbs, minithumbs only for the first page in each sequence (files ending in 0001.tif)
02: (text files to be OCR’d) jpegs, OCR text files
03: (text files which have been transcribed: there should be .txt files here already for each page) jpegs
04: (these are text requiring transcription; how delivered? Until decided, provide all that may be needed) jpegs, thumbs, minithumbs only for the first page in each sequence (files ending in 0001.tif)

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