Quality Assurance Workflows for Digitization Projects
Instructor: Martina Hoffmann, Martina Hoffmann Consulting
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 2 hours, with a 15 minute break
Course Date: Friday 18 June
Course Time:
    New York: 10:00 - 12:15
    Paris: 16:00 - 18:15

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of digitization projects.

Benefits:
This course enables the attendee to:

• Understand the need for a suitable QA for digitization of cultural heritage.
• Identify key questions to start a successful QA workflow.
• Define the basic ingredients for QA.
• Understand the principles of a modular QA-workflow.
• Implement the mix and match principle according to the given basic ingredients.

Intended Audience: Managers, program officers, project leaders, suppliers, and quality managers responsible for (mass) digitization programs. A basic knowledge of digitization projects will be assumed.

Course Description: This is a practical course on the set up to a successful quick reliable quality assurance workflow for (mass) digitization projects of cultural heritage. There is a presentation on the successfully implemented QA-workflow at the National Library of the Netherlands to give a hands-on example on how to do it. Building on the pillars of the mix and match principle, the basic ingredients set up a quality workflow which is: Simple — Flexible — Efficient — Modular — Low cost — Fast. Attendees learn which modules are useful and how to build the workflow around them. Practical, real production examples are discussed.

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 main focus now is QA processes including several fields of expertise from metadata to long term preservation.

Cost:
Member $ 85
Non Member $ 95
Student $ 45

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