I created the DT Digitization Certification Series to help cultural heritage institutions transition from legacy flatbed scanners to modern camera-based digitization systems. This educational program targets museums, libraries, and archives seeking to make their collections available online.
For the foundational Digitization 101 course, I personally handled all aspects including concept development, curriculum design, visual asset creation, voiceover recording, editing, and multilingual implementation. For the advanced 201 and 301 courses, I developed the high-level planning and curriculum outlines, then delegated implementation to my team while maintaining oversight of the project.
The course content is purposefully brand-agnostic and genuinely educational. It consciously avoids a direct sales pitch for our equipment. But because my company has a dominant market position in camera-based digitization hardware, students are organically learning why they should buy our solutions.
The certification's educational value encourages peer referrals, while its quality content increases the likelihood that participants will choose our systems. The complete series (101, 201, 301) is roughly seven hours and includes several challenging tests that must be passed to attain certification. To date these classes have more than 2000 graduates, which we estimate to be around 25% of the world-wide addressable market.
The first of four parts of the Digitization 101 course is provided below as a sample.
(Note that below only English is available; in its deployed version four languages are provided by human-translated closed captioning)
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This strategic educational initiative teaches cultural heritage professionals how to use custom programming to automate and enhance their post-processing operations.
As program architect, I developed a four-part curriculum that transforms intimidating technical concepts into accessible step-by-step instruction. The series strengthens our position as thought leaders in the cultural heritage digitization space. It also helped our clients get the most out of our system, furthering the ROI of our systems compared to the competition.
The program serves dual business purposes: supporting existing customers by maximizing the value of their current systems, while establishing our expertise with prospective clients in the broader cultural heritage community.
The series totaled six hours of content spread across four live/interactive webinars, delivered during the COVID shutdowns:
Part 1: Coding for Cultural Heritage
Part 2: Advanced Case Studies
Part 3: Getting Started with AppleScript for Capture One
Part 4: Getting Started with Python
Part 1 is below as a sample:
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Image Science and Technology Archiving is an industry conference held once per year, attended primarily by museum, library, and archive staff interested in digitization. I have taught several short courses at this conference. Course proposals are submitted for review to the IS&T organization, and once approved, conference attendees can register for approximately $300 per course. Some examples:
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