by Gabriela Paiva | Apr 1, 2022 | Case Studies, Color Calibration
At DT, we endeavor to turn imaging best practices, standards and guidelines into realistic workflows that ensure consistent high quality results. While often viewed as the gold standard, FADGI is not all encompassing, leaving out several media types. Arguably the most...
by Patrick McDonough | Jan 31, 2022 | Case Studies
History in the Making: A Case Study of AI Application This piece was written by Hannah Storch. “She gave Black people an opportunity to look at themselves on a big screen as something beautiful when all that was there before spoke to our degradation. In her we found...
by Patrick McDonough | Aug 3, 2021 | Case Studies, Film, Transmissive
The Nuances of Nitrate Film Digitization: A Closer Look at the Getty Research Institute’s Nitrate Film Collection This piece was co-authored by Hannah Storch and Karl Seifert. Above, differently sized pieces of nitrate film from The French and Company...
by Patrick McDonough | Jun 17, 2021 | Case Studies
Two-page spread from the French Hortus Collection Over the past year, DT Heritage has conducted several digitization projects for Oak Spring Garden Foundation, using our imaging expertise to digitize their trickier special collections of rare manuscripts. As their...
by Patrick McDonough | May 20, 2021 | Case Studies
Images courtesy of the Estonia Olympics and Sports Museum, at the National Archives of Estonia Headquartered in Tartu, Estonia, the National Archives of Estonia is the government agency responsible for ensuring Estonia’s written memory and documented cultural heritage...
by Patrick McDonough | Jan 22, 2021 | Case Studies, News
January 21, 2021 | by Kate Stone The DT Heritage team was recently selected for an international digitization project by The National Archive of Estonia, in which we will digitize a collection of approximately 100,000 pieces of film and glass plate transmissive...
by Patrick McDonough | Sep 22, 2020 | Case Studies
We were recently tasked with digitizing and preserving a special collection in partnership with the Mennello Museum in Orlando, Florida. The Mennello Museum holds the Melanson Holt Collection, displaying the works of a variety of artists, including indigenous artists,...
by Patrick McDonough | Apr 22, 2020 | Case Studies
The Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History has the 2nd largest entomological collection in the world with approximately 34 million specimens representing over 60% of known insect families. When the time came to digitize a subset of this collection containing over...
by Patrick McDonough | Feb 13, 2020 | Case Studies
Introduction DT DT Heritage has been digitizing Smithsonian collections since 2011; recently, we’ve made a major investment to automate parts of our digitization process to provide even better service to the Smithsonian. The first two projects to receive such...
by Patrick McDonough | Nov 21, 2019 | Case Studies, Film, Training, Transmissive, Video
The video below explores how the Art Institute of Chicago’s Imaging Archives used solutions from DT Heritage to digitize their collection of rare and delicate film material. For this particular project, the Archives focused on degrading, large format cellulose acetate...
