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Libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural heritage trustees all face the same challenge: How to protect and make the most of their collections, while enabling access and viewing to the public at large?

This heritage is often valuable, and it increasingly includes vast quantities of documents, which are old, mixed, fragile and which require professional solutions that are suitable for the specific needs of their contents.

Capitalizing on our long experience with libraries, archives and museums, Flatirons Jouve can meet its clients’ new requirements such as maintaining the context of a cultural heritage in addition to preserving it physically; sharing, in digital form, a cultural heritage which has been preserved physically; enabling relevant research using a multitude of documents and texts; presenting heritage online; and ensuring the digital preservation of old documents for legal and functional reasons, etc.

Specific needs

Collections are digitized for a variety of reasons, including for online exhibitions, for the online catalog or conservation. The first step in the process of digitizing library collection materials is to review the following considerations:

What is the purpose of the digitizing project?
Who will be the users of the digital assets?
How will the digital assets be presented?
What will be the effect on the original collection item of making the digital assets?
How will the digital files be accessed and stored?

With more than 30 years’ experience on this subject Flatirons Jouve is the best partner to help Libraries and Museums in their digitization projects as a preservation and Information Technology specialist.