by Patrick McDonough | Sep 2, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
Digitization as Risk Management On September 2, 2018, a fire broke out in the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. By the time it was extinguished, an estimated 92.5% of the museum’s 20-million-item collection was gone. The meteorites and fossilized...
by Patrick McDonough | Aug 26, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
Digitization does not end when an image is captured. The long-term value of a digitization program depends on how digital files are stored, documented, and preserved over time. Without a structured digital preservation strategy, institutions risk data loss, format...
by Doug Peterson | Aug 19, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
The Phase One iXH 250mp is shipping and one of its surprise features is Frame Averaging which greatly reduces noise in deep shadows. The user still clicks one button (or taps one foot pedal) and the camera still produces a single standard raw file. But the sensor...
by Patrick McDonough | Aug 13, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
DT Nexus Live Demo Recap: Color Negative Inversion, AI Crop, & Real Workflow Automation If your digitization workflow currently runs through four or five different pieces of software — one for camera control, one for profiling, one for cropping, one to check FADGI...
by Patrick McDonough | Aug 4, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
At IS&T Archiving 2026 we had the pleasure of unveiling the DT Stellar RGBW to the heritage community. Combined with DT Nexus, this new light brings a set of new capabilities to a variety of transmissive materials, including a mode that increases resolution for...
by Patrick McDonough | Aug 4, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News, Events, Training
Archiving 2026, the IS&T conference that brings together imaging scientists, conservators, curators, and digitization program managers from across the cultural heritage world, landed in Boston this July — the first year the conference has been held at...
by Patrick McDonough | Jul 30, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
Digitization technology is only as effective as the team operating it. Sustainable, standards-aligned digitization programs require structured hiring, training, documentation, and performance measurement. Institutions that invest in workforce development reduce error...
by Patrick McDonough | May 19, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
A Breakthrough in Cultural Heritage Imaging Today Digital Transitions is introducing the DT iXH 250MP, the new flagship of our preservation-grade digitization camera line and — by a wide margin — the highest-resolution single-shot camera ever built for cultural...
by Patrick McDonough | May 7, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
While most digitization programs focus on two-dimensional imaging, a growing number of institutions are exploring advanced imaging techniques to capture surface detail, three-dimensional structure, and material characteristics that traditional photography cannot fully...
by Patrick McDonough | Apr 9, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
As digitization programs scale from pilot projects to mass production environments, metadata quickly becomes the determining factor between a usable digital archive and an unsearchable image repository. While image capture technology has advanced dramatically,...
