Hi Lars,
The original scans are large single-page TIFFs (or JP2? not
immediately sure) from which these files were extracted - as you've
noticed, they're not taken from the PDFs.
The master images aren't available online, but I believe this is more
for reasons of scale and size than from a desire to keep them
protected - I know they've been made available to on-site researchers
without any restrictions. You'd be best off contacting the BL team if
you want access to the originals.
For other items from the same book, use the imagesfrombook tag:
Andrew.
On 20 December 2013 19:50, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
On 12/15/2013 05:08 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
wrote:
Quote from full announcement
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f…
We have released over a million images
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary> 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
<http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century-Book-Digitisation-Project-343.aspx>
[...]
Flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
Example of image
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11307195524/
Example of all images from a book
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum002660292
Stuff for coders
https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory
I found an illustration from a Swedish book, found it in
the catalog of the British Library, and from there I could
both download a PDF and view the whole book in an
online 'item viewer'.
However, the downloaded PDF has a much lower
resolution (I estimate it at 150 dpi) than the real scans
(which I estimate at 300 dpi). The illustrations on Flickr
are in full resolution.
Has anybody found out how to download the whole
book in full resolution? The 'item viewer' appears to
be a Javascript zoom and pan interface based on
layers of 'tiles' (similar to OpenStreetMap), scaled
and cut from the scanned images.
I had the same problem with books scanned by the
Norwegian national library, but there I was able to
figure out how to download images in full resolution
by requesting large tiles at full zoom. The URLs
used by the British Library are opaque to me.
Here is the illustration found on Flickr,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11067189413/
The description there says 'page 331 of Elfsyssel',
Identifier: 000507311, an easily identifiable book.
How can I search Flickr for other 'Elfsyssel' pictures?
This search yields nothing,
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=elfsyssel
The library catalog record is found here,
http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?mode=Basic&v…
After I downloaded the PDF, I made the book
available for reading and proofreading here,
http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/
The illustration (on "page 331") is here,
http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/0331.html
but even if you select "full resolution" there,
you only get the image from the PDF, and
not the good picture from Flickr.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature -
http://runeberg.org/
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