Here’s a bookmark link to a document on How to Evaluate a Scanner from Derek Jenkins of IImage Retrieval, Inc.
Tag Archives: digitization
Bookmark: How to Evaluate a Scanner
02-Feb-09UConn 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 [...]
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 [...]
Library Usability Links 12/11/08
12-Dec-08I’m a fan of user personas, but building personas for applications is an interesting idea. SocialStartup.com identifies five fundamental social patterns: Public Timeline Asymetrical Follow News Feed Re-blogging Social Proof Via the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: The Electronic Library 26, no. 6 (2008): Includes “A Metadata Manager’s Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries [...]
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 [...]
Library Usability Links 12/3/08
03-Dec-08James Robertson writes about Practical Ways to Assess CMS Usability including the following: 1. Vendor demo 2. Involve end-users 3. End-user training 4. Demo sites 5. Reference sites 6. Proof of concept 7. Usability testing Gizmoto review of Sony’s PRS-700 ebook reader: Unfortunately, the “improvements” have taken away the very essence of the Reader—the easy-on-the-eyes [...]
Library Usability Links 11/16/08
16-Nov-08The University of Minnesota Walter Library hosts World Usability Day talks in conjunction with Campus IT. New to me: Interactions which is available from the ACM Digital Library A description of user personas, this one with a useful persona template [doc] EDSF report on Color Preference in Web Design [pdf] “Results from this research found [...]
Library Usability Links 10/31/08
31-Oct-08The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) has a call out for papers for next June’s conference. Suggested topics include user studies. The webmaster library claims that flash websites kill business. Business sites, sure, but what about education sites? NASA is looking for a digital librarian to conduct usability testing, among other things. New to [...]
I came across a very interesting article today by Michael Boock on the organizaation structure at Oregon State University: Boock, M. (2008, September). Organizing for Digitization at Oregon State University: a Case Study and Comparison with ARL Libraries. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34(5), 445-451. Retrieved October 6, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database. I like [...]