by Patrick McDonough | Oct 2, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
The complete schedule for the 2026 Cultural Heritage Roundtable is set. Over two days, practitioners from state archives, research libraries, and universities will walk through the real-world challenges they’ve tackled — from rescuing film backlogs and capturing...
by Patrick McDonough | Oct 1, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
Every DT Advanced Projects engagement starts from the same premise: we’ve never done exactly this before. Most digitization work is, by design, repeatable — the same careful process applied consistently across a large, fairly uniform collection. DT Advanced...
by Patrick McDonough | Oct 1, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
Every unnamed face in your archive is a mystery. DT Identify makes it faster and easier to investigate them. A finished capture is a starting point, not an end point. A folder of digitized photographs tells you almost nothing about who’s actually in them, and...
by Patrick McDonough | Oct 1, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
Handwritten, faded, and long-forgotten text doesn’t stay locked up in an image file. It becomes searchable, translated, readable text. A finished capture is a starting point, not an end point. A high-resolution photograph of a handwritten letter is, to a keyword...
by Patrick McDonough | Oct 1, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
Named for the person who knows the collection best. Built to help them do that work at a scale no team could match by hand. A finished capture serves as a starting point, not a conclusion. DT Registrar is DT DigiLabs’ object recognition and metadata tool —...
by Patrick McDonough | Sep 24, 2026 | Cultural Heritage News
The speaker lineup for the 2026 Cultural Heritage Roundtable is here. This year’s Roundtable runs across two full days for the first time, built around the theme Advanced Tools for Heritage Digitization — and as always, the program is led by the people doing the work....
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...
