Digitization & Hosting

Whatever the current status of your collections, East View Geospatial can help maximize access and discoverability for your resources. We handle the entire digitization, conversion and hosting process, consulting with you every step of the way to make sure the end product is customized to suit your exact needs.

Ready to start your own digitization project? Use the inquiry form below to get started.

Proven Track Record

East View has worked with a variety of institutions on digital conversion/hosting projects, including university libraries, academic consortiums, corporate libraries, and large organizations such as state archives, publishers and foundations. Original primary documents are treated with the utmost care to make sure that rare, fragile or one-of-a-kind items are preserved intact wherever possible. See below for examples of East View’s work on various digital conversion projects.

Full Range of Services

East View offers a full range of services for digital conversion and hosting:

Wide format high-resolution scanning and OCR processing
Map and aerial photography, georeferencing, cropping, and mosaicking
Format conversion
Data/feature extraction
Sourcing materials to complete collections
Custom metadata creation, MARC records
Rights diligence
Archival preservation
Platformization and hosting for long-term online access, including our GGL+ platform

Digitization Inquiry Form

Do you have materials that need digitization, conversion, or hosting? Use the form below to describe your needs and we can discuss customized solutions.

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Would you like to provide more information on your project?

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Document type(s), format and condition of materials, location, rough volume/page count, etc.

What are your specifications for digitization of the material?

e.g., 400dpi, LZW compression, bi-tonal, grayscale, color, full-text, full-image, IIIF, OCR, etc.

Do you require additional output?

e.g., georeferenced maps, tiled mosaics, vectorized maps, data/feature extraction, format conversion, etc.

Are there any quality or workflow concerns?

e.g., poor images, gaps in coverage, fragile material, bound volumes, etc.

Does metadata exist for your materials?

Yes, metadata already exists

No, I would like East View to create metadata

What are your plans for hosting the digitized materials?

We will host the material internally

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Case Study

Academic Library: Digitization & Platformization

Overview:

Contracted with the John Miller Burnam Classics Library at the University of Cincinnati to create a digital version of the library’s entire collection of paper maps and charts relating to Greece and the surrounding region.

Solution:

Received over 650 print maps and charts; inventoried and organized items into thematic groups
Digitized all print materials and conducted OCR (in Greek and English) for items with heavy textual elements
Mounted maps to GGL+, East View’s secure digital library platform, to facilitate discovery via browsing and search, including faceted search
Created item-level metadata, including permanent URLs
Created index maps and geomosaics for all map series in the collection

Case Study

Academic Library: Georeferencing, Cropping and Mosaicking

Overview:

Contracted with University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) to georeference maps for the Historical National Topographic System (NTS): 1:50,000 Scale Maps, Data, & GIS, a new Open Access geospatial data collection of Canadian maps.

Solution:

Georeferenced approximately 20,000 map sheets previously scanned by UTL
Verified UTL-provided metadata and applied to each map sheet once georeferenced
Continuing effort to crop and mosaic map sheets

Case Study

Corporate Library: Digitization and Georeferencing

Overview:

Contracted with a multinational geoscience technology services company to convert paper and mylar aeromagnetic maps from print to digital.

Solution:

Received and inventoried roughly 1,200 paper maps for on-site scanning at 400 DPI
Georeferenced all maps
Created shapefile and XLS metadata records for each map
Converted select maps to vector format