Assessing microfilm digitization vendors

Vendor candidates

• HTC Inc.
  • Recommended by HLSL.
  • Films are sent to India.
• Creekside Digital (located in Glen Arm, MD)
  • Lyrasis partner
• Backstage Library Works

Characteristics of sample films

• Includes handwriting
• Includes printed text
• Includes multiple titles
  
• Includes splices

Imaging Services' orders for microform digitization services will have the following characteristics:

• Digitization of entire reels or entire fiche-sheets.
  

Specifications

└── 990009660700203941
    ├── 990009660700203941_0001.tif
    ├── 990009660700203941_0001.xml
    ├── 990009660700203941_0002.tif
    ├── 990009660700203941_0002.xml
    ├── 990009660700203941_0003.tif
    ├── 990009660700203941_0003.xml
    ├── 990009660700203941_0004.tif
    ├── 990009660700203941_0004.xml
    ├── 990009660700203941_0005.tif
    ├── 990009660700203941_0005.xml
    ├── [...]
    ├── 990009660700203941_9999.tif
    ├── 990009660700203941_9999.xml

Test film for microform scanning vendors

• OCR not requested
• Camera master (1N), 35mm, single reel
• Reduction ratio: 12
• Multiple sonic splices
• 1st and 2nd documents include handwritten and printed text
• 3rd document: published item filmed 2-up
• 4th document: index cards arranged in horizontal pairs
  • Vendor should deliver one image file (2 index card images) for each horizontal pair

• Includes 4 works to be named and arranged as follows, using JOB NUMBER or document name and 4 digit sequential number:

  test film: file system organization and structure

  ├── 05_2907_01     │   ├── 05_2907_01_0001.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_01_0002.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_01_0003.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_01_0004.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_01_0005.tif     │   ├── [...]     │   └── 05_2907_01_9999.tif     ├── 05_2907_02     │   ├── 05_2907_02_0001.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_02_0002.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_02_0003.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_02_0004.tif     │   ├── 05_2907_02_0005.tif     │   ├── [...]     │   └── 05_2907_02_9999.tif     ├── 82_4897     │   ├── 82_4897_0001.tif     │   ├── 82_4897_0002.tif     │   ├── 82_4897_0003.tif     │   ├── 82_4897_0004.tif     │   ├── 82_4897_0005.tif     │   ├── [...]     │   └── 82_4897_9999.tif     └── index_cards         ├── index_cards_0001.tif         ├── index_cards_0002.tif         ├── index_cards_0003.tif         ├── index_cards_0004.tif         ├── index_cards_0005.tif         ├── [...]         └── index_cards_9999.tif