Datatrac Announces Breakthrough Results For Digitizing Educational And Cultural Collections

Datatrac Information Services Inc. today announced a new, high resolution digital imaging service, which provides museum and library conservators with a more cost effective and time efficient means of digitizing and preserving their collections of historically significant documents, images (of both reflective and transparent media) and two dimensional works of art.

Until now, conservators were forced to compromise between the quality of the digital image and the labor required to produce it. Most museums and other institutions settled for digital originals of lower resolution because they could not afford the additional labor involved with capture and post-capture workflow for the desired resolution.

Datatrac is able to achieve these superior results through a combination of camera hardware and workflow software it acquired through Stokes Software Inc. The overall strategy for the new system was designed by John R. Stokes, the leading expert in digitization of images and documents for archival purposes.

Datatrac and Stokes first worked together when they were both under contract to the Library of Congress' Digital Initiatives Program. While the approach currently in use under Datatrac's contract met the library's stringent quality requirements, Datatrac wanted to exceed its customer's expectations. Keeping the goal in mind, the company purchased the next generation digital imaging system from Stokes Software Inc., which dramatically improved capture and post-capture efficiency - without compromising image quality.

To create this advanced solution, Stokes teamed up with Stokes Software Inc. Stokes Software took the capture software even further and created an image workflow application that can produce images in record speed, while maintaining the required high quality. Their combined efforts have resulted in a dramatic improvement in the cost/quality equation of high resolution digital imaging.

"I believe the Stokeses have set a new standard for the industry," said Kathi Yeager, Datatrac's president. "In the hands of our experienced project managers and technicians, our new system will enable us to improve upon the superior quality our clients have come to expect from Datatrac, and to do so at even more competitive rates."

John T. Stokes, president of Stokes Software Inc. said, "The new system we have created will allow Datatrac to exceed its customer's current requirements for spatial resolution, tonal distribution and noise. More importantly, the new, integrated Imaging Workflow Solution (IWS) enables (Datatrac's) technicians to take a digital image through six processes, including capture, correction, verification, automation, inspection and delivery. By fully integrating these once separate steps, Datatrac will be able to dramatically reduce the overall time spent on each image, thereby reducing the overall project cost for its clients."

About Datatrac Information Services Inc.
Founded in 1987, Datatrac is an award-winning, Native American, Women-Owned company with more than 1,500 dedicated employees across seven states. Datatrac provides technology-enabled solutions that support its clients' efforts to transition their infrastructures and business processes from analogue to digital, thereby enabling services that are more client-centered, more efficient and more cost-effective.

About John R. Stokes and Stokes Software Inc.
John R. Stokes has been engineering digital imaging solutions for more than 15 years for clients such as the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the National Library of Medicine and the National Geographic Society. Stokes Software was founded in 2004 by Janet and John T. Stokes and is a licensed value added re-seller of the Stokes Capture Station.

     
   Director of Business Development
   Datatrac Information Services, Inc.
   Chantilly,    VA,    20151
   USA
   703-817-9700 (phone)
   703-817-9791 (fax)
   t.keyes@datatrac-dc.com
   www.datatrac-dc.com
  

     
   Project Manager
   Datatrac Information Services, Inc.
   Chantilly,    VA,    20151
   USA
   703-817-9700 (phone)
   703-817-9791 (fax)
   j.kister@datatrac-dc.com
   www.datatrac-dc.com