Editing Digitization (section)

== Solutions ==
Institutions can make digitization more cost-effective by planning before a project begins, including outlining what they hope to accomplish and the minimum amount of equipment, time, and effort that can meet those goals.<ref name=":04"/> If a budget needs more money to cover the cost of equipment or staff, an institution might investigate if grants are available.<ref name=":04" /><ref name=":162"/>

=== Collaboration ===
Collaborations between institutions have the potential to save money on equipment, staff, and training as individual members share their equipment, manpower, and skills rather than pay outside organizations to provide these services.<ref name=":202"/> Collaborations with donors can build long-term support of current and future digitization projects.<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1080/1941126X.2015.1092343 | title=Streaming the Archives: Repurposing Systems to Advance a Small Media Digitization and Dissemination Program | year=2015 | last1=Anderson | first1=Talea | journal=Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship | volume=27 | issue=4 | pages=221–231 | s2cid=61418169 }}</ref><ref name=":152"/>

=== Outsourcing ===
Outsourcing can be an option if an institution does not want to invest in equipment but since most vendors require an inventory and basic metadata for materials, this is not an option for institutions hoping to digitize without processing.<ref name=":152" /><ref name=":162" />

=== Non-traditional staffing ===
Many institutions have the option of using volunteers, student employees, or temporary employees on projects. While this saves on staffing costs, it can add costs elsewhere such as on training or having to re-scan items due to poor quality.<ref name=":152" /><ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1108/DLP-07-2017-0024 | title=Staffing with students | year=2018 | last1=Skulan | first1=Naomi | journal=Digital Library Perspectives | volume=34 | issue=1 | pages=32–44 }}</ref>

=== MPLP ===
One way to save time and resources is by using the [[More Product, Less Process]] (MPLP) method to digitize materials while they are being processed.<ref name=":142"/> Since [[GLAM (cultural heritage)|GLAM]] (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions are already committed to preserving analog materials from special collections, digital access copies do not need to be high-resolution preservation copies, just good enough to provide access to rare materials.<ref name=":103"/> Sometimes institutions can get by with 300 dpi JPGs rather than a 600 dpi TIFF for images, and a 300 dpi grayscale scan of a document rather than a color one at 600 dpi.<ref name=":162" /><ref>Kelly, E. (2014, May 14). Processing through digitization: University photographs at Loyola University New Orleans. ''Archival Practice, 1''(1).</ref>