This advice identifies some of the considerations associated with outsourcing the digitisation of audio or video.
Description
Digitisation
This page provides advice on choosing a format/codec for digitising different types of audio and video recordings.
Digitisation refers to the conversion of non-digital material to digital form. There are many reasons why your organisation may consider converting existing analogue recordings to digital. If your organisation decides to digitise analogue audio and video recordings, there are a number of factors to consider.
This sections contains specific guidance for business process digitisation
This section contains specific guidance for back-capture digitisation
This section contains general guidance for managing digitisation projects.
- Staffing digitisation programs and projects
- Managing the 'people factor'
- Policies, procedures, standards and documentation
- Legal admissibility of digital records
- Benchmarks and quality assurance
- Technical specifications
- Metadata requirements
- Equipment for digitisation
- What are the 'official' records?
- Managing digital images as records
- Managing original paper records
- Disposal of original paper records after digitisation
Digitisation is the means of converting hard-copy or non-digital records into digital format. These guidelines provide advice for NSW public offices on implementing sound and well structured digitisation projects and programs for records.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to:
- examine common reasons why back-capture digitisation projects are undertaken (i.e. what benefits they can bring)
- explore some considerations relevant to these reasons.
The Digitisation checklist: Overview is designed to be a quick reference source for information about inclusions in a business process digitisation program. For more information, consult the relevant sections of the guidelines and the checklists available in some of those sections.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to examine how to:
- identify the official records within back-capture digitisation projects, and
- how to manage the digital images that will become the official record within a business process digitisation program.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to examine some of the benefits, costs and risks associated with a business process digitisation program and how to mitigate those risks.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to provide guidance on how organisations can determine technical specifications for digitisation projects.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to provide guidance on what benchmarks and quality assurance measures should be in place for digitisation projects.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to examine staffing needs for back-capture and business process digitisation programs.
The Digitisation checklist: overview is designed to be a quick reference source for information about inclusions in a back-capture digitisation project. For more information, consult the relevant sections of the guidelines and the checklists available in some of those sections.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to discuss how to make good selection decisions for records to target in back-capture digitisation projects.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to describe what an organisation should have in place in terms of policies, procedures, standards and documentation for a digitisation program.
The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to discuss what planning is required for business process digitisation programs to ensure that the right records are selected and that the benefits of business process digitisation can be realised, costs managed and risks mitigated.
#The purpose of this section of the guidelines is to discuss what planning is required for back-capture digitisation projects. This includes business case planning and further project planning.