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Standards & Digitisation Policy

The primary goal of digitisation in ITMA is to preserve materials and, where possible, make them accessible to the public. Sound recordings, texts, and still and moving images are all candidates for digitisation, with more vulnerable media given priority.

At ITMA, we keep a close eye on international standards and best practice. We incorporate those standards into the digitisation workflow, using the best equipment available. Digitised items also carry technical and contextual metadata to allow them to be both managed effectively and available to search engines.

Find out more about the current standards employed and the particular decisions made regarding the material for this Newfoundland project by clicking on the tabs below.

Images

ITMA’s Preferred Preservation File Format

TIFF 300 DPI

ITMA’s Preferred User Access Format

JPEG 300 DPI 

Decisions Made for A Grand Time

Many of the images featured in A Grand Time were donated as digital copies in a variety of formats and resolutions. These have been included in the exhibition regardless of quality because they are valuable documents of a time and place. Nothing can be done to improve the resolution of an image. All were converted to JPG for website use.

Prints, Manuscripts & Ephemera

ITMA’s Preferred Preservation File Format

TIFF and/or PDF/A 300 DPI

ITMA’s Preferred User Access Format

JPEG 300 DPI
PDF/A

Decisions Made for A Grand Time

Each page of the original manuscripts and articles were scanned to 300 DPI TIFF and the individual images were combined to create a PDF/A for upload to the website.

Sound

ITMA’s Preferred Preservation File Format

BWF WAV
Sample Rate: 96kHz
Bit Depth: 24 bit

ITMA’s Preferred User Access Format

MP3

Decisions Made for A Grand Time

The original reel-to-reel recordings had previously been digitised to CD. These were extracted from the CD and MP3 copies made for the website.

Video

ITMA’s Preferred Preservation File Format

MXF
Codec: MPEG2

ITMA’s Preferred User Access Format

MP4
Codec: MPEG 2

Decisions Made for A Grand Time

The original video and audio was recorded using ITMA’s own Canon XF 100 High Definition camera. The files were then converted to MP4 for website use.
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