Introducing Wider Lens: A New Podcast & Live Event Series for the Cultural Heritage Community
At Digital Transitions, we spend every day working alongside museums, libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions navigating the realities of preservation-grade digitization. One thing has become increasingly clear: while standards, workflows, and...
Digitization in Action: Real-World Cultural Heritage Projects and Proven Workflows
Digitization in Action: Real-World Cultural Heritage Projects and Proven Workflows Every cultural heritage digitization project comes with its own challenges—unique materials, institutional goals, preservation requirements, and access demands. While standards, best...
Film Scanning & Transmissive Material Preservation: Workflows, Tools, and Best Practices for Cultural Heritage
Film Scanning & Transmissive Material Preservation: Workflows, Tools, and Best Practices for Cultural Heritage Film and other transmissive materials—negatives, slides, panoramic strips, and fragile reels—are among the most cherished and simultaneously challenging...
Film Scanning in Practice: Building Accurate, Scalable Workflows for Transmissive Materials
Film Scanning in Practice: Building Accurate, Scalable Workflows for Transmissive Materials Digitizing film and other transmissive materials presents a unique set of challenges—extreme resolution requirements, focus precision, color inversion, and the need to balance...
2025 Roundtable – Brock Switzer & Emily Ransone, The Mariners’ Museum and Park
The Domino Effect: Navigating Crisis in Archival Preservation Discovering chemical decay in film collections can trigger a cascading series of urgent preservation projects that require immediate infrastructure overhauls. Balancing physical safety with digital...
2025 Roundtable – Siera Erazo, NASCAR Hall of Fame
Smarter Metadata with AI: Accelerating Access to Motorsports History Artificial Intelligence offers a scalable solution for processing massive photographic backlogs that would otherwise overwhelm internal staff. Training custom models to identify specific...