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Correcting OCR didn't have much impact on the ability to find items of interest. Better domain-specific metadata helped a lot more.
DIY-ish gadget for digitizing old film stock. Clever as hell.
…my solution to the problem… (Demonstrating the Scan-dle to my colleagues from the OSC over a beer in a local pub. Photo: Reinhard Engels) They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea a…
Master and access copies of thanks to @herodotusjr, @kellyannewithe, and @krispymerryman for their assistance!
Minimum Digitization Capture Recommendations The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Preservation and Reformatting Section June 2013 Submitted by: Ian Bogus, University of
A new archive is trying to digitize thousands of hours of tape from TV and radio stations across the country—before those tapes disintegrate.
A common hurdle facing digitization projects is producing accurate optical character recognition (OCR) output. Library and archives users expect to be able to search the full text of digitized docu…
History, archives and the problem with treating every problem as a tech problem.
On discovery breaking out of the prison of original order via linked data and digitization.
"This article explores the idea of coupling robust collection-level descriptions to mass digitization and optical character recognition to provide full-text search of unprocessed and backlogged modern collections, bypassing archival processing and the creation of finding aids."
We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into...
An impassioned (and for once, SFW) argument for MPLP digitization.
Given the popularity of 71 Digital Portals to State History from last month–we got many comments with great additions to that list–I thought it would be useful to extend the conversation to the local level. Unlike for the earlier post, we did not have the services of an intern to do the research, so the starting […]
An excellent example of a digitization plan.
Canada funding digitization through privatization?