Very cool do it yourself project from Instructables.com:
Tag Archives: digitization
DIY Portable Copy Stand
15-Oct-09What’s the most efficient method for nearly choking a small digitization shop? Success. That’s something we’re experiencing at The University of Montana and we couldn’t be happier.
Scanned Master Files Compared
08-Jul-09Here’s a quick chart that specifies the amount of disk space a single scanned 8.5″ x 11″ master file will take up.
The fading costs of content
09-Jun-09The recent discussions about newspapers has got me thinking about the history, and costs, of information. Recently we just digitized a rather large collection of microfilm and are getting it ready to publish it on the library’s website.
Review: 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.
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.
Archive: Photoshop CS4 books reviewed
12-Apr-09I’m archiving this book review, originally found at The Tech Static:
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
Preserving Data in a Hostile Environment
30-Dec-08Found via the Washington University DLS blog, here’s an article from the NYT on the challenges faced by the National Archives when it comes to the massive data dump the Bush administration is about to unload.
The archives invoked its emergency plan to deal with problems in transferring two types of electronic files: a huge collection [...]