Materials Preparation Services
Services include the preparation of materials for digitization, quality assurance tasks, and the production of the metadata essential for managing, discovering, and delivering electronic resources:
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Creation of holdings and/or adds links within Harvard’s bibliographic database (Alma / HOLLIS), catalog of visual resources at Harvard (JSTOR Forum / HOLLIS Images), finding aids (Archives Space / HOLLIS for Archival Discover), and other specialized collections catalogs to provide access to digital objects in accordance with established guidelines.
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Maintenance of item-level tracking inventory of all source materials throughout the digitization process.
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Preparation of materials for digitization using appropriate techniques to make each item “camera ready” (e.g., by removing fasteners, unfolding pages).
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Review and enhancement of the metadata that accompanies source materials for use in downstream processes to describe digital objects and to structure their component parts.
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Preparation of job tracking and billing paperwork for queued production batches.
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Coordination of the transfer of materials from conservation and imaging production areas.
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Quality assurance review of digital objects for consistency and completeness and application of remedies for errors.