Ray I. Riley Digitization Center
The Ray I. Riley Digitization Center (RDC) is a state-of-the-art center dedicated to the creation and long-term preservation of Baylor University's digital collections. Working with the campus libraries, archives, museums and others, the staff at the RDC utilize specialized digitization equipment to create digital surrogates of Baylor's unique holdings for presentation in the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections.
Equipment in the RDC includes:
- Audio sound booth with Rega & Technics turntables for analog disc migration
- Zeutschel OS 14000 A0 format scanner
- Zeutschel OS 14000 A2 format scanner
- Zeutschel OS 12002 V scanner
- Kirtas KABIS 3 high-speed book imager
- Cruse large format scanner (5 ft. x 8 ft. scanning capability)
- Large format desktop scanners
- InoTec Scamax 400-Series high speed document scanner
- BlackMagic Video Digitization workstations
- Decks for digitization of Umatics, Betamax tapes, DATs, & VHS
- Quadriga cassette transfer system
- Filmfabriek HDS+ 8mm & 16mm film scanner
- Sony Alpha 7R III mobile camera scanning system
- and much more!
Ray I. Riley Digitization Center
Audio Booth
Audio sound booth with Rega & Technics turntables for analog disc migration
Used to digitize:
Black Gospel Music Restoration Project | George W. Truett sermon discs
Zeutschel 14000 A0 format scanner
Used to digitize:
Spencer sheet music | Waco Newspapers | Oral History reels | Cassettes
Zeutschel 14000 A2 format scanner
Used to digitize:
Browning letters | Victorian letters | Roundups | Baptist Argus | Baylor Insider | Keston items | Browning music | Baylor Literary | Spencer sheet music | Photographs | Rare books
Zeutschel 12002 V scanner
Used to digitize:
Waco Heritage and History | Women Poets Books
Kirtas KABIS 3 high-speed book imager
Used to digitize:
Women Poets Books | Baptist Annuals | John Armstrong Notebooks | BU Press Releases | Phoenix | Rare books | The Wittenburg Door | Sound Historian
Cruse large format scanner
Used to digitize:
Baylor Lariats | Texas Maps | Portraits | Historic Newspapers | War of the Rebellion Atlas | Artwork | Blueprints | Waco Newspapers | Posters
InoTec Scamax 400-Series high speed document scanner
Used to digitize:
School of Music programs | Baylor Bulletins | Roundups
Decks for digitization of Umatics, Betamax tapes, DATS, & VHS
Used to digitize:
Oral History Interviews | Black Gospel Preachers Project | School of Music performances and recitals
Quadriga cassette transfer system
Used to digitize:
Oral History Interviews
Filmfabriek HDS+ 8mm & 16mm film scanner
Used to digitize:
Baylor Athletics film reels | Keston Center film reels | Texas Collection film archive | KWTX film archive
Sony Alpha 7R III mobile camera scanning system
Used to digitize:
Black Gospel Music Restoration Project