Posts Tagged ‘cultural heritage digitization’
The Benefits of Choosing Preservation-Grade Hardware
Preservation-grade is more than just a marketing phrase. Not all scanners are equal, and treating archival digitization hardware as a commodity purchase is where preservation programs run into trouble. Institutions shopping for preservation grade scanners for cultural heritage, government records, or institutional archives, “good enough” isn’t enough. Preservation-grade is a term that often appears in archival conservation, but it can also apply to digital preservation. The word preservation means keeping something safe from harm and in its original state. In…