Case Studies
Take a deep dive into our most recent projects to learn more about how our capabilities can make a difference in your upcoming digitization project.
History in the Making: A Case Study of AI Application
History in the Making: A Case Study of AI Application This piece was written by Hannah Storch. “She gave Black people an opportunity to look at themselves on a big screen as something beautiful when all that was there before spoke to our degradation. In her we found...
The Nuances of Nitrate Film: A Case Study With The Getty
The Nuances of Nitrate Film Digitization: A Closer Look at the Getty Research Institute’s Nitrate Film Collection This piece was co-authored by Hannah Storch and Karl Seifert. Above, differently sized pieces of nitrate film from The French and Company...
A Digitization Case Study for Oak Spring Garden Foundation: A Specialized Approach for a Special Collection
Two-page spread from the French Hortus Collection Over the past year, Pixel Acuity has conducted several digitization projects for Oak Spring Garden Foundation, using our imaging expertise to digitize their trickier special collections of rare manuscripts. As their...
Into the Heart of Europe: Traveling to Estonia to Digitize Film and Glass Plates
Images courtesy of the Estonia Olympics and Sports Museum, at the National Archives of Estonia Headquartered in Tartu, Estonia, the National Archives of Estonia is the government agency responsible for ensuring Estonia’s written memory and documented cultural heritage...
International Digitization In Estonia with Pixel Acuity
January 21, 2021 | by Kate Stone The Pixel Acuity team was recently selected for an international digitization project by The National Archive of Estonia, in which we will digitize a collection of approximately 100,000 pieces of film and glass plate transmissive...
Digitizing an American Painting Collection with the Phase One iXH 150MP
We were recently tasked with digitizing and preserving a special collection in partnership with the Mennello Museum in Orlando, Florida. The Mennello Museum holds the Melanson Holt Collection, displaying the works of a variety of artists, including indigenous artists,...
Mass Digitization at the Smithsonian – 30,000 Bees in 32 Days
The Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History has the 2nd largest entomological collection in the world with approximately 34 million specimens representing over 60% of known insect families. When the time came to digitize a subset of this collection containing over...
Scripting for the Smithsonian: Bees, Bones, & Barcodes
Introduction DT Pixel Acuity has been digitizing Smithsonian collections since 2011; recently, we’ve made a major investment to automate parts of our digitization process to provide even better service to the Smithsonian. The first two projects to receive such...