Digitisation of Cultural Documents

This paper deals with the digitisation of documents, the advantages and characteristics of digitisation, as well as legal aspects connected to this enterprise. Digitisation (numerisation, scaning) is an information codification procedure which allows document copying. It can also be defined as a method of transforming information documents such as books, photography, sound or visual recording into electronic documents for purposes of preservation, information circulation, and a better accessibility to the public at large.

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