I’ve been asked by a small-sized museum / special library to make a suggestion on what kind of equipment a start-up digitization studio would need while operating under a budget of approximately $3,200. This studio would need the cabability of digitizing photos, and possibly some text, post-processing the scans, hosting the images on an existing [...]
Category Archives: Digital Preservation
Building a Scanning Studio from Scratch
09-Dec-08… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago: The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt A few key quotes: The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than [...]
On Google and Privacy and Library Search
10-Jun-07A quick comment on the latest privacy analysis conducted by Privacy International. Their methodology is a very interesting read because it appears to be directly counter to what Google is doing with search and data aggregation. Two points in particular: Data collection and processing What type of information does the site collect, with and without [...]
Digital Preservation
26-Sep-06I’m heading out to Cornell next week to attend a Digital Preservation Management workshop. In the preparatory readings, two preservations services caught my eye: HD Rosetta: This service will etch documents onto a nickel plate at such a small resolution that from an 8.5″ x 11″ plate you can retrieve up to 18,000 pages of [...]