Program item

Archiving 2025

Contracting and Managing an Outsourced Digital Imaging Project

SC02

CANCELLED Contracting and Managing an Outsourced Digital Imaging Project
Instructor(s): Martina Hoffmann, Swiss National Library and David Walls, US Government Publishing Office
Level: Introductory
Duration: 4 hours
Course Time: 8:45-13:00

Benefits
This course enables the attendee to:
- Develop requirements for your digital imaging work to be performed.
- Develop a Statement of Work or Proposal for your outsourced digital imaging project.
- Develop essential contract elements.
- Choose a digital imaging vendor.
- Choose a test batch for contract requirements.
- Develop a quality assessment routine for completed work.

Course Description
Outsourcing work to digital imaging vendors can speed your way to providing the online content your users need. Learn how to communicate and work with such vendors to ensure that you get the quality product you expect. This course focuses on how to develop a proposal for selecting a digital imaging vendor, construct a contract, address errors and corrections, and work with that vendor until the new content is available online to your users.

Intended Audience: This course is for the librarian or collection curator at a library or archives that does not have an in-house digital imaging facility and who may have some experience with outsourcing a small digital imaging project but would like to scale up to larger projects on a more frequent basis.

Martina Hoffmann is a consultant for digitization of cultural heritage from strategy to QA with years of experience in the field. She has been employed by the National Library in the Netherlands and Metamorfoze, as well as the National Archives in the Netherlands. She co-designed several quality assurance workflows for different mass digitization projects in the Netherlands. Starting with only image quality QA processes, her current focus is QA processes, including several fields of expertise from metadata to long-term preservation.

David Walls is the preservation librarian for the US Government Publishing Office, where he brings more than 25 years of experience in both digital and tangible preservation to the task of developing and managing strategic initiatives for the Preservation of Federal Government Information for the American public.