Creekside Digital

05/19/2026

Creekside Digital will be hosting a free webinar, "Creekside Digital's Verified Digitization Services," on Tuesday, June 16th, from 10:30 to 11:15 am ET.

Creekside Digital does three things that together set us apart from every other digitization vendor in the U.S.:

FADGI-compliant capture at both 3-Star and 4-Star levels. Whether your project calls for production-grade 3-Star imaging or the most rigorous 4-Star preservation standard, our equipment, color-managed workflows, and trained imaging specialists deliver to spec — consistently, at scale.

AI/ML-forward processing, metadata, and QA. We've built modern machine learning into every stage downstream of capture: intelligent and massively scalable post-processing, incredibly accurate and consistent corner detection and auto crop/deskew, automatic metadata generation, enrichment, and classification, and intelligent quality assurance. The result is faster turnaround, lower cost per asset, and richer deliverables than traditional manual workflows can produce.

100% verification of every asset, every batch, every time. This is the one nobody else does. Using Virtuoso — software we built in-house over the past several years — we verify every single digitized image against both FADGI guidelines and your project-specific requirements. Not a sample. Not a statistical subset. Every file. Every batch. Every time. Scalable from tens to tens of millions of images and beyond.

Virtuoso generates an audit report for each image documenting compliance or non-compliance against:
* Master file and derivative requirements
* Reference targets
* Metadata
* Checksums
* Naming and foldering structure

Each report also includes supporting forensic information showing exactly how every assertion was determined, so results can be independently reproduced and verified. To our knowledge, it's the only commercial software in existence that validates full compliance at the asset level.

The webinar will walk through how all three of these capabilities come together on real projects across federal and institutional clients.

To register

Webinar access details will be emailed 24 hours before the presentation. Register here. (https://lnkd.in/eMcvGz3g)

If the link doesn't work at your location, email [email protected] with the program title in the subject line.

We hope you can join us on June 16th.

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01/29/2022

Cool article on a recent project.

MARQUETTE — The Peter White Public Library has started digitizing Mining Journal editions into a searchable online system. “It’s super important that this project is happening, it is long overdue. This newspaper really is important for our community memory history, for people to do genealogy r...

01/06/2022

Creekside Digital is hiring! We are looking for a front end / UI web developer with Java experience. Required skills include Java 8+, JSP, JSTL, Spring MVC, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, and a solid understanding of Java web architecture and servlets. Nice to have but not required would be experience with React, design systems including IBM Carbon, accessibility best practices, knowledge of MySQL / MongoDB and other data stores, and digital imaging, image file format, and image processing experience. Of course, an interest in history and cultural heritage would be a plus. Location in Tampa Bay or Washington DC / Baltimore Metro areas would be helpful but isn’t necessary – this is a remote position. We strongly prefer contract-to-hire unless we already know you personally. If interested please send a resume and cover letter.

10/12/2021

For immediate release: Creekside Digital awarded GSA General Services Administration Schedule, becomes first vendor on MAS with 3-Star and -19-21 compliant CLINs.

GLEN ARM, Md. (PRWEB) October 12, 2021 -- New Contract Helps Federal Agencies Achieve Compliance with Upcoming Mandatory Regulations for Document Conversion

04/08/2021

Awesome beer for , courtesy of our friends at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This artifact was likely used in a Baltimore brewery not too far from our Glen Arm, MD facilities. We are already getting volunteers to help test its capabilities. :-)

03/04/2021

Archivists and librarians . . . applying for a grant that involves non-A/V materials (anything that doesn't move or make noise -- books, microfilm, photos, maps, artwork, archival and manuscript collections, objects and ephemera, etc.)? Creekside Digital would love to provide you with a quote for digitizing your project that you can include with your submission. Our affordable pricing maximizes the amount of content that can be converted under your grant, and our company's track record of success on past Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) award projects as well as our singular focus on the creation of standards-compliant, measurably accurate assets strictly adherent to the current guidelines are significant risk mitigators. Send your questions and inquiries to our Director of Digital Services (and Keeper of All Pricing) Joan DaShiell at [email protected]. Let us know how we can help you submit the strongest application possible!

01/15/2021

Back by popular demand: Creekside Digital's President Jim Studnicki is co-presenting a series of webinars on the guidelines with the one and only Don Williams of Image Science Associates through our friends at LYRASIS. This will be the fifth year that Don and Jim have presented this track and they tune it up every year to make sure the content is in-line with the current FADGI guidelines. Essentially, they split every one hour session: Don leads off and presents some of the image science behind the Guidelines, and Jim takes the second half and talks about practical, real-world applications of the theory Don shared using actual projects as examples. The class is geared towards librarians, archivists, museum personnel, and anyone who wants to get better at applying the current Federal standards for still image digitization to their own projects -- for cultural heritage imaging activities, and beyond. Here's a link to registration for the first class -- looking forward to seeing all of you online soon!

What makes an image a "good" image? How can image quality be measured in a standards-compliant, repeatable fashion? Digitization consumes resources, and there only may be a single opportunity to convert certain collections; how can we make sure that it is done in accordance with the relevant guideli...

08/22/2020

Alright -- this is pretty cool. Great weekend morning coffee read.

It takes some doing to extract sound from an 1885 wax disc

06/16/2020

Breaking news: a map of the Antietam battlefield digitized by NYPL The New York Public Library two years ago has yielded a treasure trove of new information, including the precise burial locations of over fifty named soldiers. is absolutely key in performing this type of historical research.

(Sharpsburg, Md.) — Without a doubt, the battlefield at Antietam, site of the September 17, 1862, clash that still represents the bloodiest day in American history, is hallowed ground. Antietam National Battlefield protects landscapes associated with the Union victory that gave Abraham Lincoln the...