On Methodology For The Digitization Of Traditional Collection

Information management organizations always possess abundant traditional collection resources, which have witnessed the developments of human civilization and affected the advancements of social politics, economy, science, technology, ideology and culture, etc. With the rapid progress in computer and network science, establishing a "Kingdom of Information" is proposed in cyber-space as well as in the real world, which is based on the digitization of traditional collection.Accordingly, domestic and overseas researches on information management science have recently focused on the digitization of traditional collection, with lots of experiments or practices having been carried out. Digitization projects' aims, objects and principles are paid high attention, moreover, the methodology for the digitization is attracting more and more notices.In this dissertation, the author analyzes the requirements, selections, applications and evaluations of different digitizing methods, tries to establish a self-contained system of "methodology for digitization of traditional collection". The paper briefly consists of five parts as following:A. Introduction. It summarizes the domestic and overseas latest development of collection resources digitizing research and practices, states the thesis's main purport, and formulates the paper's outline.B. The requirements of digitization. It illustrates the different requirements in different information management organization, which desire compatible schemes on digitizing method.C. The selection of digitizing method. It analyzes the factors that inevitably affect the selection, such as the digitization projects' aims, items, costs and other additional necessary conditions.D. The application of digitizing method. It elaborates the application of digitization method in the whole digitization working flow. In the former digitizing phase, the quality and efficiency of conversation can be controlled by hardware, software, related format standards and Internet protocols; in the latter digitizing phase, it is necessary to apply appropriate method to capturing metadata, information retrieving, digitized collection propagation and issuance.E. The evaluation of digitizing method. According to the systematic theory and principle theory, it shows the indexes on how to evaluate the methodology of a digitization project.