RHYTHM OR MIX: DIGITIZATION AN END TO GLOBAL VISIBILITY OF INFORMATION RESOURCES
RHYTHM OR MIX: DIGITIZATION AN END TO GLOBAL VISIBILITY OF INFORMATION RESOURCES
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2012
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KASA, M. Gabriel
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This paper provides the stepping stone to successful digitization of information resources from the scratch. It gave benefits, characteristics of digitized resources, stages of digitization, different file format and digitization challenges. The paper displays how digitization is used to solve problems of access and global visibility of research, academic and the leisure information needs for effective development of the society. The study proposes learning from other initiatives, and gave basic equipment for all the processes. Digitized resources can be made available on-line through the internet and/or off-line on storage devices like CD-ROM, external/detachable hard disk drives to mention few. Information on the various document formats were given to facilitate choice and long-term consideration, the tool for digitization recommended are those very familiar to ease digitizing and correction which are two of the major constraints to effective implementation of digitization.
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RHYTHM OR MIX,, DIGITIZATION AN END,, GLOBAL VISIBILITY,, INFORMATION RESOURCES