The Digital Services Lab contains modern and legacy technologies to ensure high quality captures of physical archives reformatted for long term digital preservation and access. These services are provided for CSUN University Library Special Collections and Archives and associated digital projects. The lab facilitates the following reformatting and data services with limitations noted:
Text
Bound books, pamphlets, brochures, letters, documents (letter and legal), broadsides, and maps up to 25" x 36"
- Bookeye 5 V1A
- Bookedge scanner
- Epson V800 flatbed scanner (2)
- Epson XL10000 flatbed scanner
- Epson XL12000 flatbed scanner
Software
- Epson Scan 2
- Adobe Acrobat
Images
Negatives (35mm, 4x5, 120/620), slides (35mm), microfilm, prints and art up to 25" x 36"
- Bookeye 5 V1A
- Epson V800 flatbed scanner with transparency kit (2)
- Epson XL10000 flatbed scanner
- Epson XL12000 flatbed scanner with transparency kit
- Microfilm scanner
Software
- Epson Scan 2
- Adobe Photoshop
Three-dimensional objects
Small sculptures, figurines, and artifacts in addition to metadata capture from audiovisual media carriers: canisters, cassettes, reels, records and record jackets, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, floppy disks, external and internal hard drives, memory cards/drives, and sculptures/figurines/artifacts
- Nikon D700 DSLR
- Copy stand
- Adjustable LEDs
- Light tent with rotating mount
Software
Audio
Open reels, audiocassettes, microcassettes (coming soon), vinyl records, digital audio tapes (DAT), CDs
- Akai GX-210D stereo reel-to-reel (3.75, 7.5 ips)
- TEAC X-1000R stereo reel-to-reel (3.75, 7.5 ips)
- Uher 4200 Report stereo reel-to-reel (2.4, 4.7, 9.5, 19 cm/sec)
- Tascam 202 Mk VII (4)
- Panasonic microcassette player
- Audiotechnica AT-120 (33.3, 45, 78 rpm)
- Ultrasonic vinyl disc cleaning system
- Sony 57ES DAT player
- Sony 75ES DAT player
- CD/DVD combo drives
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 audio interfaces (4)
Software
- Adobe Audition
- Izotope RX 11
- BWF MetaEdit
Video
VHS (standard play and extended play), SVHS, Betamax, Betacam, Betacam SP, ¾” inch U-Matic, U-Matic SP, Mini-DV, Video8, Hi8, and DVD-R optical discs
- LG VHS (16)
- Panasonic VHS (8)
- Sony SVHS SVO-5800 (2)
- Sony Betamax SL-HF500
- Sony Betacam SP UVW-1800
- Sony Betacam SP BVW-65
- Sony U-matic VP-5000
- Sony U-matic VO-5800
- Sony U-matic SP VO-9600
- Sony Hi8 Handycam CCD-TRV65
- Sony MiniDV Camcorder (6)
- DVD/Blu-ray combo drives
- FOR.A FA-310 time base corrector
- Hotronic AP41 time base corrector
- Tektronix 1710B waveform monitor
- Tektronix 1730 waveform monitor
- Tektronix 1720 vector scope SCH
- Tektronix 1720 vector scope
- Tektronix TSG-170 Test Signal Generator
- BlackMagic UltraStudio HD video interfaces (2)
- BlackMagic dual digital monitors
- Panasonic CRT monitor
Audiovisual conservation
- Cabella Dehydrator
- Blank VHS and audiocassettes
- 1/4", 1/8’’ tape splice kits
- VHS is Life Mold Cleaner (for VHS, Betamax, and U-Matic S tapes)
Software
- Vrecord
- ffmpeg
- DaVinci Resolve
- Adobe Media Encoder
- VLC Media Player
Data Acquisition
3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks (no 8"), 100 Mb Zip, Dittomax, data CDs/DVDs, thumb drives, memory cards, external hard drives, internal SATA drives
- Digital Intelligence Forensic Computer (FRED) with Tableau I/O
- 3.5" floppy disk drives (4)
- 5.25" floppy disk drive (3)
- FC 5025 Floppy controller card (USB)
- Zip drives (7)
- Dittomax drive
- CD/DVD combo drives (4)
Software
- BitCurator Suite
- FTK Imager
- Terminal/Command Line
- Device Side Data FC5025
- Iomega
- Handbrake
- VLC Media Player
- Bagger
- Preservica
