Digitization

WHAT IS Digitization System?
Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format, in which the information is organized into bits. The result is the representation of an object, image, sound, document or signal (usually an analog signal) by generating a series of numbers that describe a discrete set of its points or samples. The result is called digital representation or, more specifically, a digital image, for the object, and digital form, for the signal. In modern practice, the digitized data is in the form of binary numbers, which facilitate computer processing and other operations, but, strictly speaking, digitizing simply means the conversion of analog source material into a numerical format; the decimal or any other number system that can be used instead. Companies manage their inventory on a daily basis as they place new orders for products and ship orders out to customers. It’s important that business leaders gain a firm grasp of everything involved in the inventory management process. That way, they can figure out creative ways to solve inventory management challenges by finding the right solutions.

Digitization Challenges
As digitization is being embraced by companies, communities, cities, organizations large and small, it is critical to assess and address the challenges that exist. Challenges that can become show-stoppers for the internet of things (IoT), challenges that could diminish the promise of big data, challenges that may push promising innovations in domains of artificial intelligence, virtual reality or bio tech even further into the future. Challenges that can become huge business opportunities when addressed in an organized and proper way. The list of challenges to digitization below is by no means complete, but it does address the most important ones and how Cisco seeks to address some of them.

Digitization Attempts
This has been explored in depth elsewhere, but in summary the listed advantages offered by digitization tend to come under the headings of increasing access, preservation, and meeting strategic goals (i.e., raising the profile of the institution running the project, and so on). The first, allowing increased access to the object, is the most-often-cited benefit of digitization. An electronic facsimile of a page, for example, can be theoretically copied and distributed ad infinitum without any degradation in quality (if correct standards are maintained). More importantly, a single copy can be mounted on a server (most commonly a Web server), and this can be viewed and downloaded by a large number of users (possibly in the region of hundreds of thousands), simultaneously, and from any location in the world (assuming appropriate access restrictions and server technology).

Digitization Solutions
This has been explored in depth elsewhere, but in summary the listed advantages offered by digitization tend to come under the headings of increasing access, preservation, and meeting strategic goals (i.e., raising the profile of the institution running the project, and so on). The first, allowing increased access to the object, is the most-often-cited benefit of digitization. An electronic facsimile of a page, for example, can be theoretically copied and distributed ad infinitum without any degradation in quality (if correct standards are maintained). More importantly, a single copy can be mounted on a server (most commonly a Web server), and this can be viewed and downloaded by a large number of users (possibly in the region of hundreds of thousands), simultaneously, and from any location in the world (assuming appropriate access restrictions and server technology). The clear advantage of such a system is that it liberates the document (albeit a facsimile) from the constraints of traditional access methods. Take, for example, a digital image of a folio from a rare manuscript. Traditionally users may only be allowed access to the original item if they have an appropriate reader's card, and a good and validated reason. Most importantly they would have to physically go to the manuscript itself, which may involve travel, time, and/or money. However if a digital facsimile of the folio was mounted on the Web, for example, and made freely accessible, suddenly everyone can look at the image from the comfort of his own home, office, or school. This example also leads us to the second-cited advantage of digitization, namely preservation. Although the preservation of digital objects is a discussion in itself, the above scenario does imply that the original item might be handled less, or at least that the curators would have an extra reason for restricting access to the print manuscript.

Digitization Usefulness
digitizing a signal is to take samples of it, which, if closely spaced, can be used to play a seemingly perfect replica.” Yet sampling, by definition, means selecting some aspects of an analog signal and rejecting others. While this can be done so as to suggest the appearance of a perfect replica, within the process of digitization an algorithm makes decisions about what to keep and what to discard. At their most basic level, algorithms are “encoded procedures for transforming input data into a desired output, based on specified calculations”