Film Scanning in Practice: Building Accurate, Scalable Workflows for Transmissive Materials Digitizing film and other transmissive materials presents a unique set of challenges—extreme resolution requirements, focus precision, color inversion, and the need to balance...

The Domino Effect: Navigating Crisis in Archival Preservation Discovering chemical decay in film collections can trigger a cascading series of urgent preservation projects that require immediate infrastructure overhauls. Balancing physical safety with digital...

Smarter Metadata with AI: Accelerating Access to Motorsports History Artificial Intelligence offers a scalable solution for processing massive photographic backlogs that would otherwise overwhelm internal staff. Training custom models to identify specific...

Using AI: Tips, Techniques, and Pitfalls Combining high-speed capture with AI-driven text extraction can transform static physical records into dynamic, searchable datasets. Success with Large Language Models (LLMs) relies on precise prompt engineering, including...

From Detail to Context: Digital Provenance as the New Standard in Digitization Technical perfection is not enough; a digital image must include its "digital provenance"—the context of its creation—to be truly valuable. Paradata, or the documentation of the...

Human-Centered Digitization: The Future of Heritage Imaging Shifting the focus from pure pixel count to operator experience allows institutions to "do more with less" through improved ergonomics and automation. The new Phase One iXH 250MP dramatically increases...