Visit Your Collection – From Home?
The global response to COVID-19 has included mass closures, urging the public to stay at home and “shelter in place.” These conditions are not exactly conducive to visiting collections of art, books, or historical documents. Unfortunately, that means the majority of research, study, and reference has come to a stuttering halt. Unless, of course, the […]
Learn: Why Share an Online Collection?
Learn the appeal of building a shareable online library, and the benefits one can provide your organization in Anderson Archival’s explainer. What Are the Benefits of Sharing Your Digital Library Online?
How Long Will Your Archive Last?
When most people hear the term “technology obsolescence,” outdated hardware is probably what comes to mind. For archivists, though, a more covert danger to collections is outdated software. Once digitized, it’s easy to think that the collection is safe for decades or longer, but in reality, it may have far less time before it’s in […]
Learn: What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?
Learn about a key part of the digitization process in this Anderson Archival explainer. What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?
Building a Demonstration Collection, Part 1: First Steps
Every collection is unique. The Anderson Archival team is comprised of history and digitization enthusiasts who love a good process, thrive on curveballs, and take joy in building something from the ground up. When Anderson Archival launched as a division of Anderson Technologies, one of the first discussions we had in-house was the need for […]
Preservation Hesitation? Just Get Started!
Do you have a historical collection that deserves digital preservation but keep coming back to the same problems? Maybe your project is so extensive you don’t know where to start, or you simply can’t afford an archival project right now. Even if you’ve owned a collection for decades, you’ve probably noticed more recent emphasis on […]
Quotables: 9 Ways Going Digital Can Increase Your Business’s Value (Home Business Mag)
Farica Chang’s post in Home Business Mag outlines the benefits of digitizing a business. Through proper digital preservation techniques, your scanned documents can contain metadata tagging, optical character recognition (OCR), and other tools to make your data easily searchable by anyone in your company. Quick search and reliable digital provenance are a boon to all […]
Quotables: 5 Steps for Organizing Your Paperless Office (Young Upstarts)
Principal Farica Chang’s guest blog for Young Upstarts stresses the importance of planning and security when moving to a paperless office—or starting an archival project. Some questions to help direct your planning stage are the following: What exactly do you want to digitize? Which physical copies will be shredded and what will be preserved? What […]
Generate Revenue from Your Online Collection
Is the perceived cost of digitally archiving your collection making you hesitant to move forward with an important project? Monetizing archival collections may be the answer! Monetizing an archival collection involves electronically transforming the collection in a way that allows people to access it online for a fee. You use the digital collection to provide […]
5 Factors That Can Affect the Timeframe of Your Archival Project
Is it finally time to kick off that digitization project you’ve been delaying for so long? Many collectors don’t realize how much time and planning go into digitizing a box of old photo albums, let alone a collection that fills an entire room or basement. If you’re applying for funding to help your or your […]
