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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">Oregon Heritage has published two new Heritage Bulletins, which focus on digital preservation project planning and implementation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">Traditionally, historical societies, museums and archives collect and preserve an assortment of “analog” material such as paper, film and three-dimensional objects. The advent of digital imaging technology has changed the way many organizations address the material in their collections.<SPAN style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">Successful digitization projects require effective planning, collaboration and long-term financial investment. <A href="http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/docs/Heritage_Bulletins/HB_21_Digitization_Projects_Planning.pdf"><FONT color=#0000ff>Heritage Bulletin 21: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Planning a Digitization Project</I></FONT></A> (HB21) provides valuable guidance to those wishing to expand the usefulness of their collections, making items available to a wider audience and protecting fragile objects from repeated handling. HB21 considers copyright issues, costs, technical requirements and the implementation of policies pertinent to digital media and digitization projects.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=Default><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><FONT size=3>Once an organization has defined a digitization project plan, the next step is implementation. </FONT><A href="http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/docs/Heritage_Bulletins/HB_22_Digitization_Projects_Implementation.pdf"><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3>Heritage Bulletin 22: <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Implementing a Digitization Project</I></FONT></FONT></A><FONT size=3> offers </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN class=A6><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">information about a step-by-step process known as a workflow, discusses software settings and provides helpful glossary of terms. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">Both bulletins include resource sections with information on project funding, additional reading material and links to subject matter on the Internet. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">To access and download the new bulletins – or to review the topics covered in the other 20 Heritage Bulletins – visit <SPAN style="COLOR: black"><A href="http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/TECH/pages/index.aspx"><FONT color=#0000ff>Oregon Heritage’s Technical Assistance</FONT></A> page. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Segoe UI'">We are interested in your feedback. Have we missed a topic? Is there information you would like to see covered in a future Heritage Bulletin? <A href="mailto:heritage.info@state.or.us"><FONT color=#0000ff>Email us</FONT></A>!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></SPAN></BODY></HTML>