Digital Initiatives at LAC

Digitization

Internal Digitization Standards

The following table contains the standards for resolution and bit depth that LAC typically uses in digitization projects. The material is organized by type of source material being digitized. These standards are guidelines rather than rules; the actual settings used in a specific project may vary depending on the condition of the material and the intended use of the digital images. In every case, the objective is to have a master image which is a faithful reproduction of the original document, and an access version in which all the essential informational value of the original is readable.