Here’s a quick chart that specifies the amount of disk space a single scanned 8.5″ x 11″ master file will take up.
Tag Archives: Digital Libraries
Scanned Master Files Compared
08-Jul-09Review: Scanning Negatives and Slides
11-May-09This book is a valuable addition to the field of digitizing negatives and slides. It covers a wide range of topics, including hardware considerations (from scanners and digital SLR cameras to flatbed and specialized film scanners); readers will also find a nice overview, with workflows, of image capture and editing software.
Google’s Similar Images and Art Research
22-Apr-09Found via DigitalKoans, Google Labs has just released a “similar images” search engine.
Instructables Book Ripper
21-Apr-09This Instructables set by Daniel Reetz is an exciting hack. He lays out a plan for building a two-camera book scanner with V-shaped platen.
Library Usability Links 2/26/09
26-Feb-09A short Harvard Business Review article highlights the importance of ethnographic studies to inform strategy.
Via Experientia, Christian Lindholm identifies three layers of UX in mobile phone design: Bling, Control, and Utility
Andy Rutledge analyzes the CNN page design for something he labels “quiet structure”.
Spoonfed Design identifies six measures of goodness in Apple’s site usability.
Here’s an interesting [...]
I’m archiving this review, originally published on The Tech Static:
Dalston, Teresa R. and Michael Pullin. Virtual Reference on a Budget: Case Studies.
Bookmark: How to Evaluate a Scanner
02-Feb-09Here’s a bookmark link to a document on How to Evaluate a Scanner from Derek Jenkins of IImage Retrieval, Inc.
UConn Survey on JPEG2000 Use
02-Feb-09Found this posted earlier last week via Digital Koans: Digital Project Staff Survey of JPEG 2000 Implementation in Libraries
Reading a press release out of UCSD, this comment from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access [pdf] caught my eye:
A recent study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) said that in 2007, the amount of digital data began to exceed the amount of storage to retain it, and will continue [...]
Building a Scanning Studio from Scratch
09-Dec-08I’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 [...]