Talk:Digital reformatting

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No need to merge[edit]

This page correctly discusses one of the elements of digitizing. The Digitizing page currently discusses mostly the Digital reformatting topic, while omitting other elements of digitizing.

The 'Digitizing' page could be greatly improved by including other elements of the process.

Quoting from the NARA website (digital conversion is known as digital reformatting):

   ..."digitizing" should be understood not just as the act of scanning an 
   analog document into digital form, but as a series of activities that results 
   in a digital copy being made available to end users via the Internet or other 
   means for a sustained length of time. The activities include:

   Document identification and selection
   Document preparation (including preservation, access review and screening, locating, pulling, and refiling)
   Basic descriptive and technical metadata collection sufficient to allow retrieval and
   management of the digital copies and to provide basic contextual information for the user
   Digital conversion 
   Quality control of digital copies and metadata
   Providing public access to the material via online delivery of reliable and authentic copies
   Providing online ordering for reproduction services at quality or quantities beyond the capacity of an end user
   Maintenance of digital copies and metadata"

MarekZielinski (talk) 20:53, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merging would eliminate redundancy and help users[edit]

Both pages cover very similar ground. There doesn't seem to be an adequate reason to break out the actual media conversion aspect of the process from the process of digitization as a whole. Except (talk) 17:15, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with merge. Even if one accepts the arguments against a merge (preceding section), then Digital reformatting is a subset of Digitizing, and the latter can easily accommodate the former. Alternatively, they are identical concepts in which case they should certainly be merged. Klbrain (talk) 14:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This makes sense. Merging now. Sophie means wisdom (talk) 13:08, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]