Others in this thread have all made useful comments, but I think it would pay to take a step back first and ask yourself some questions about your situation:

(*) what's your volume of material? Do you have a single book? a shelf of contents? a room of content? a multi-site organisation full of content?
(*) what are your resources? Do you have techies? Do you have cataloguers? Do you have volunteers? Do you have machine-readable catalog records for the books?  Is there good authority control for the people in the archive? Do you have existing finding aids? Do you have a book scanner?
(*) Are you working as part of an enduring institution with a demonstrated commitment to archives?
(*) Have you looked around for possible consortia to join?
(*) Have you looked around to see who else has already digitised closely-related materials? 
(*) Which languages are the archives in?
(*) Do you have a collections policy?
...

The more detailed the answers, the better we'll be able to give you advice rather than just push our prejudices at you...

cheers
stuart


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Subject: [CODE4LIB] Digitization Project from Scratch

Hello,

Anyone has experience in digitizing archival materials? I need your
recommendations/suggestions on how we can start with our digitization. We
need to build a searchable website so the public can access our materials
of images, publications and media files.

What platform did you use? Open-source or fee-base? What is your experience
using it?

Basically, we started using Sharepoint but at this point, I believe it is
only good for sharing of internal documents. We are on a limited budget so
we may need to host it on our own server as well.

Any feedback or persons to contact for more info is highly appreciated.
Thanks.

Chris