Athletic Archive Digitization Acceptance Criteria Checklist: Verify Images, Metadata, and Deliverables
An athletic archive digitization acceptance criteria checklist is the pass-fail inspection a school runs when a digitization vendor delivers scanned photos, programs, rosters, award records, and other historical athletic materials — confirming that every deliverable meets documented standards before the project is approved and payment is released. Without a formal checklist, approval decisions rely on a brief visual scan that misses critical failures: images saved at screen resolution instead of archival resolution, metadata fields that are blank or inconsistently formatted, filenames that contain spaces or characters that break downstream systems, rights documentation that is absent or ambiguous, and a delivered file count that does not match the original source count.
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