new high-resolution scans of the Voynich manuscript. Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.T he new scans are even sharper than earlier versions. Recent conservation work addressed folds and curls that had previously blocked some pages, and new scanning equipment made the color more accurate.
Reveal Digital works in true partnership with libraries to bring rare- and untapped content into the digital world. Using a revolutionary platform and framework, Reveal Digital empowers libraries to collaborate and create unique digital open-access collections using a strict cost-recovery funding model.
A non-profit membership organization. LYRASIS partners with libraries, archives and museums and other cultural heritage organizations to create, access and manage information with an emphasis on digital content, while building and sustaining collaboration, enhancing operations and technology, and increasing buying power.
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH presented at this website is developing and testing methods for measuring the severity of detectable errors in digitized books and validating the impact of error on the end-user. Here you will find information on the project, selected findings, and links to the project’s reports, presentations, publications, and products. HATHITRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY serves as a testbed of digitized books and serials for the project, which has three overlapping phases. Paul Conway, Associate Professor, PI.
Digital Version of the famous Encyclopédie....
The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 74,000 articles written by more than 130 contributors, the Encyclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightenment. The impact of the Encyclopédie was enormous. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Encyclopédie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.
IMPACT is a Centre of Competence that makes digitisation of historical printed text in Europe faster, cheaper and better, and provides tools, services and facilities for further advancement of the State of the Art in this field.
MetPublications is a portal to the Met’s comprehensive publishing program. Beginning with nearly 650 titles published from 1964 to the present, this resource will continue to expand and could eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals published by the Metropolitan Museum since the Met's founding in 1870. It will also include online publications.
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
the Distributed Proofreaders Image Source list used by Project Managers when creating a project. lists scanning projects and for each has a link to ebook, full text works in progress and produced from scanned images of public domain works
Chronicling America provides bulk access to its OCR data. Each file will decompress into directory structure that lets you easily map the OCR file to the URL identifier for that page. Historic American Newspapers
The purpose is to offer some scanning tips and to explain the basics for photos and documents. It is about the fundamentals of digital images, about the basics to help you get the most from your scanner. How it works, for those that want to know.
Preservation and Access Technology The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Processes: A Structured Glossary of Technical Terms. CLIR
Digitization as a Means of Preservation? European Commission on Preservation and Access, Amsterdam October 1997 Final report of a working group of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association)