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This class is officially an introduction to the issues and trends in digitization initiatives and management, including project planning and management, asset delivery and management systems, interoperability and the importance of standards, copyright and other legal issues, metadata basics digital preservation, and specific digitization processes for documents, images, video, and sound. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Unofficially, it's a fun class with lots of hands-on projects with real collections and archives and some theory (yes theory!) about the objects (text, images, sound, and moving images) we'll be digitizing. Some questions we'll consider: