Editing Digitization (section)

===Digital reformatting at the Library of Congress===
The [[Library of Congress]] has been actively reformatting materials for its [[American Memory]] project and developed best standards and practices pertaining to book handling during the digitization process, scanning resolutions, and preferred file formats.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/techStandards.pdf|title=Library of Congress. (2007). Technical Standards for Digital Conversion of Text and Graphic Materials}}</ref> Some of these standards are:

*The use of [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] 16067-1 and ISO 16067-2 standards for [[Image resolution|resolution]] requirements.
*Recommended 400 [[pixels per inch|ppi]] resolution for [[Optical Character Recognition|OCR]]'ed printed text.
*The use of [[24-bit color]] when color is an important attribute of a document.
*The use of the scanning device's maximum resolution for digitally reproducing photographs
*[[TIFF]] as the standard file format.
*Attachment of descriptive, structural, and technical [[metadata]] to all digitized documents.

A list of archival standards for digital preservation can be found on the [[Association of Research Libraries|ARL]] website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/digi_preserv.pdf|title=Search Publications – Association of Research Libraries® – ARL®|website=www.arl.org|access-date=2016-11-06|archive-date=2012-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505032857/http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/digi_preserv.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Library of Congress has constituted a Preservation Digital Reformatting Program.<ref>Library of Congress, (2006). Preservation Digital Reformatting Program. https://www.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presintro.html</ref> The Three main components of the program include:
*Selection Criteria for digital reformatting
*Digital reformatting principles and specifications
*Life cycle management of LC digital data