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DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Stahl.

This handout, "Developing Photo Metadata," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. The focus of this guide is on creating metadata for photographic collections. While there are many metadata categories that can be included in describing photographic collections, choices about which ones to include in a metadata template must be made. Metadata categories you record should anticipate your needs and those of future users of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachel Fernandez.

This handout, "IAfF Digital Data Management Plan Workflow," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. This guide leads you through prompted sections to create a preliminary digital data management plan that can be used for any project that produces digital data.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "File Format Cheat Sheet," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. This guide describes access and archival file formats that are required when creating digital objects. A table of recommended archival and access formats for various media types are included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Stahl.

This handout, "How to Organize and Scan Photographic Collections," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. When working with photographic collections, it may come to you as a set of prints, negatives or slides. This handout provides a brief background on each medium and provides a recommended workflow for working with photographic collections. Helpful resources and practice questions are also included.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "Making Digital Copies of Photographic Prints," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. This guide walks you through the process of digitizing photographic prints from properly setting the scanner to creating archival and access copies. Best practices for file naming conventions and batch processing are also discussed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "Sample Dublin Core Cataloguing Guidelines," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. A sample list of Dublin Core metadata categories and associated definitions and examples are outlined in this guide.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "Scanning from Slides and Film," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. The digitization process for both film and slides are described along with the pros and cons of scanning these media compared to photographic prints.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "Scanning to a Text File," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. Although PDF is a convenient format for reading and sharing textual documents online, there are times when it is most useful to create a fully editable transcription of a document. This guide walks you through the steps on creating a Word document from a paper report. Anytime that you have a paper copy of a document, and you would like to have a digital,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "Scanning Unbound Documents," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. Although it is possible to scan printed documents on a photo scanner, it is more convenient to purchase a document scanner if you are going to do a lot of this kind of material. A document scanner is optimized for scanning documents quickly, and it comes with optical character recognition software that can turn an image into editable text. This guide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "Tips for Producing Good Quality Video," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. Best practices when producing video including camera orientation, lighting, and transferring files from camera to computer are discussed in this guide.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Goddard.

This handout, "Using Adobe Premiere Elements to Edit Video," is a part of the Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past (IAfF) Digital Resource Guides. It is a step by step introductory guide in using Adobe Premiere Elements to edit videos.