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

Specifications

image format
TIFF / 8-bit grayscale / uncompressed / embedded sGray ICC profile

OCR format
ALTO, UTF-8 encoded

directory structure and file naming

image files: [document id]_####.tif

ocr files: [document id]_####.xml

directories: [document id]

Example:

└── 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