Archiving 80 Years of Work is No Small Task

By Melody Smith|September 28th, 2010|Autoindexing, News, Standards, Taxonomy|Comments Off

September 28, 2010 – The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DoL) has partnered with DATAMARK to scan an estimated 2.5 million pages of paper records into digital image files for long-term storage and retrieval.

This was brought to our attention by PRWeb in their article, “Document Scanning Project Electronically Archives 80 Years Of Department Of Labor History.” Dealing with old and often fragile files, DATAMARK used several different types of high-speed and flatbed scanners to successfully capture archival-quality images, while keeping the original documents intact. DATAMARK maintained a minimum copying and indexing accuracy level of 99% per field quality based on a project average and was able to turn around 60,000 documents per week. The entire project took one year to complete.

This was a huge project, of the kind that could benefit from machine-assisted or totally automated indexing based on a taxonomy specific to the records being processed. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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About the Author: Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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Archiving 80 Years of Work is No Small Task