Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents
http://ahds.ac.uk/history/creating/guides/digitising-history/

Townsend, Sean, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijvé
AHDS
1999

Abstract:

This guide is intended as a reference work for individuals and organisations involved with, or planning, the computerisation of historical source documents. It aims to recommend good practice and standards that are generic and relevant to a range of data creation situations, from student projects through to large-scale research projects.