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CD-ROM / DVD imaging: is it customary to save scans of booklets / covers as well?

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I'm trying to compile a minimum set of metadata that an end-user would need for using ISO images from a ~15,000 CD-ROM /DVD collection. In particular I'm wondering about CD booklets and covers. They often contain lots of useful info and documentation related to technical environments and usage instructions. However, having to digitize them would add a substantial overhead on top of the actual imaging workflow. An other option might be to make scans of the actual CDs, which often contain useful info as well. This is what e.g. Internet Archive seems to be doing:

https://archive.org/details/SharewearBreakthroughUtil_ProdCol

I'm curious how other institutions are dealing with this?

asked by johanvanderknijff on 22 Sep 2015 · 424 views

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We're not dealing with large amounts of CD-ROMs exactly, but we handled the rather fancy packaging of the Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs by doing photographs. The included posters we scanned as well.

http://archive.rhizome.org/theresa-duncan-cdroms/

answered by

despens on 22 Sep 2015

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Several people responded to this question on Twitter, see link below (and all replies):

https://twitter.com/bitsgalore/status/646305395779207168

answered by johanvanderknijff on 23 Sep 2015