With the help of DIW, ISEAS Library has benefited from the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system it deployed in 2010 and 2011. The library's mass digitisation of some 50,000 old slides and photographs and a growing multimedia collection resulted in a large amount of digital images and associated content requiring unprecedented institutional management. The DAM …
What are the ways to manage your paper documents that will save you future money and time?
We have been invited by a few organisations to suggest solutions on digitising paper documents. These organisations range from a shipping company to a school. The main reason that initiates their move is the most obvious advantage of digitising paper documents: Saving storage space.
Can my digital image be blown up this big?
I am sure you have seen many mural size prints in shopping malls, outside buildings or in exhibitions. Most often, you are viewing them from a distance such that you can see the entire print. Have you ever gone closer and see the details of the print? Let me use a mural size print in …
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72 dpi for Web, 200 dpi for print?
For those who have dealt with web/graphic designer or printer before, you would probably get this request from them. “Give me the images in 72 dpi for web design,” or “Give me the images in 200 or 300 dpi for printing?” Is this mysterious DPI value an important factor for the quality of image used …
Make sure that your effort will not be wasted – An experience to share from a past project
In order to manage the collections efficiently, an institution took the initiative to catalogue its collections digitally a few years ago. Software was purchased for recording the collections that has a size of two thousand items. Many hard works and effort were put into data entry of the two thousand items. At the same time, …
DAM! It is far more about ‘workflow’ than ‘software’!
As more and more digital files are created, an increasing number of organisations are reaching a critical pain threshold in needing to control and manage their vast amount of digital assets. Digital assets include everything from photos, PowerPoint presentations, text documents, graphic designs, PDF to audio and video. These are proving to be valuable assets …
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Coming Soon – A Digital Dark Age?
You probably have heard about the scary stories of losing digital files in a crashed computer, but you might not know of another danger which is taking place gradually. It is called technology obsolescence. For examples, the change of file format, the dropout of less popular software, the extinction of storage media, etc. For organisations …
How many pixels are needed for a certain print size, without losing image quality?
Generally, I would suggest that you do not resize the image (created by digital camera). Just give the full size image to photo lab or printer. If you are doing your own printing using inkjet printer, select the full size image and then define what print size you want in the printing software. However, in …