Digitization as Risk Management
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 skeletons...
Digital Preservation After Capture: Storage, File Formats, and Long-Term Collection Access
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...
Frame Averaging with the iXH 250mp
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...
DT Nexus Live Demo Recap: Workflow Automation for Cultural Heritage Digitization
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...
Stellar RGBW Color Negative Inversion
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...
Digital Transitions at Archiving 2026: Two Courses, a Live Capture Station, and a Full House in Boston
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 Harvard's...