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.
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)
This page provides references for Stanford University Libraries Digital Production Group staff members performing imaging and Image QC auditing. This page is freely shared with vendors and partner institutions.
Paul Conway. Digital imaging technologies are replacing the microfilm camera and photocopier as the primary mechanisms for reproducing print and graphic resources. Digitization practices do not necessarily accomplish preservation goals; only a portion of digitization programs in cultural heritage institutions produce preservation-quality results. In 2004, the Association of Research Libraries issued a position paper that supported the creation of preservation-quality digital images, citing the abundance of available standards and best practices. This course concentrates on the state-of-the-art of standards, techniques, metadata, and project requirements for the production of preservation-quality digital images. The course will consider such standards and practices within the larger context of the representation of information through technological remediation.
The European Research Library Organisation LIBER and OCLC have agreed to exchange bibliographic records about digital masters. By this agreement, full information about digitized print material from both European and US libraries will be united in a centr