Digitization
What We Offer
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Photography has been a powerful method of preserving personal, family, and cultural history for nearly two hundred years. Digitzation enhances preservation, shareability, and creative use options.
Printed Photos
Photo Albums
Negatives
Slides and Transparencies
Photo Albums
Archiving Principle: Digitization does not replace the original copy. It provides a backup for improved preservation and opens up new ways these items can be used and shared.
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Records are among the most significant digitizable materials. They are generally unpublished and unique and, therefore, extremely vulnerable to permanent loss.
Documents
Letters
Maps
Manuscripts
Ephemera (funeral programs, birth announcements, tickets, receipts, etc.)
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Book scanning is a great way to preserve bound volumes. It is also essential for employing Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
Journals
Scrapbooks
yearbooks
vintage books
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Your professional, personal, or heritage artwork carries particular meaning. Digitizing these works provides provenance and copyright protections, new business uses, and a means to preserve singular items and share them with people who may otherwise have no access to them.
Paintings
Drawings
Sculpture
Collage
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Film and video are fragile. Prone to hardware obsolescence, breakage, and disintegration, these audio-visual assets are at the top of the list when considering what to digitize first.
8mm and Super 8 film reels
DVDs and DVRs
Video Cassette Tapes
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Capturing an image of an object provides a secondary form of preservation and helps establish provenance for archival, insurance, and business uses.
Sculpture
Vases
Furniture
Clothing
Jewelry
Collectibles
Ephemera (badges, pins, medals, pop-up cards, etc.)
Active Archiving Idea - Object capture makes a 3D asset accessible in interesting new ways. Use the new format to share cultural and family history in a virtual setting, to facilitate research, or to incorporate the object into your own art projects.
Digitization is an important part of modern archiving and asset management. Watermark ADI uses a variety of equipment and processes to ensure material safety and excellent digital renderings to meet the needs for whatever use-case you have in mind. We also offer expanded metada for better discoverability, intellectual property protection, and long-term preservation.
