(The more modication a library demands of eachMARC record, the more it costs.) In Harvard’s case she typicallyaccepts the record as is, even when the original card bearsadditional subject headings or enriching notes of various kinds.

OCLC owns the largestdatabase of bibliographic information in the world, and it oers aservice called RETROCON, contracting with libraries to transfer oldcatalog cards to “machine-readable form,” at anywhere from ftycents to six dollars per card.

More recently, a media organization along with a prominent theatre group brought out short visual representations of popular poems. The express purpose of this project, Kaavya Kannadi was, as the website says in heavily Sanskritized Kannada, to reach out to youngsters between 17 and 40 years. The videos do away with the need to read the poems, and they also make it easy to share them.

PD Dr. Thomas Städtler (Project Leader)

A Definition of Digitization In the simplest of terms, digitization is turning something into bits and bytes, or 1’s and 0’s.

Digitization definition: any time you translate something into bits and bytes – for example, by scanning a photo or a document – you are digitizing that object.

Digitization所指的数字化简单的讲是将模拟信号/实物转换成数字形式，也就是转换成电脑能保存和处理的二进制“0”和“1”。比如将一张胶卷冲印的老照片扫描成数码照片，用手机拍一段视频等。这通常是第一步，要求公司了解其控制的数据的价值。

Despite the surprising lack of digital editions, the commonplace book, more than any other genre of writing, seems well suited to a digital format, since, by its very structure, it is a linked web of fragments that have been “coded” and “marked up” with metadata. For this reason, we have put much thought and planning into which tools to use and how design this digital edition.