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- No blanket digitization standard is applied to all materials. Each project has inherent characteristics and therefore must be tested and discussed and agreed upon before digitizing.
- Missing Pages: Will include a page in the pdf with the message that the page was missing in the original.
- OCR will be performed on all text items.
- Image Derivative creation – either the vendor or the sponsoring library will create image derivatives. The Operations Team cannot spare the staff time for this for free.
- File disposition: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/spaces/gliffy/viewlargediagram.action?name=File Disposition
- RDrive:DSpace Images - the master files will reside in this folder prior to ingestion
- Download locally for faster work ex. Cataloging - download to work locally then only upload the metadata or derivatives* Never overwrite the files on DSpace Images (the exception is file error, file damaged or misnamed)
- Never replace files on RDrive:DSpace Images
- Exception: When files are damaged or misnamed. Limited number of people who can do this.
- OCA scanned files in Internet Archive will also be loaded into our repository.
- Checksums
- The digital copy is considered one of the “two copies” for the libraries.
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