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Home / Resources / Managing Digital Collections

Managing Digital Collections

Technology, standards and recommendations for building and maintaining digital collections.

  • Planning a Digital Project that Works
Staff members gather around a computer and overhead scanner
NCDHC staff digitize newspapers in Elizabeth City

Digitization

  • Digitization Guidelines
  • File Formats Used by the Digital Heritage Center
  • Scanning and Digitization Equipment used by NCDHC
  • Six Steps to Consider before Scanning Vertical Files
  • Scanners and Content Management Systems in North Carolina Cultural Heritage Organizations (2022)

Metadata

  • Metadata Guidelines
  • Equitable Metadata Practices Related to Gender, Race, and Culture

Providing Access

  • DigitalNC Software
  • Suggestions for Hosting Your Scanned Photos
  • Scanners and Content Management Systems in North Carolina Cultural Heritage Organizations (2022)

Updated December 2023

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DigitalNC is a project of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries and our sponsors.

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