If only we had contacts in the Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums who have the skills to handle this type of artifact.

On Aug 1, 2012 2:54 PM, "David Gerard" <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 August 2012 14:51, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

> The Internet Archive would be the best people to talk to about this;
> they've experience in deploying scanning machines and training
> individuals to operate them. I don't know how much the hardware costs,
> but it seems there's one installed at the Natural History Museum:
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/2012/07/25/bhl-the-vast-library-of-life
> It might be worth talking to them and asking if we can train a
> volunteer to use the hardware on an occasional basis, during slack
> time, to run our own programs. They have the software in place to
> contribute copies to IA (which ought to be best practice for our
> digitisation programs anyway), and we can handle the Commons side
> ourselves; all we need to do then is source the books!
> I'm happy to contact them and make enquiries about this, unless
> someone else already has NHM contacts - anyone?


+1


> *However*, this is the general case for digitisation of normal print
> works. For manuscript material like this - rare, probably very
> fragile, and needing careful curation during the scanning process -
> I'd be really reluctant to let it near a volunteer who didn't have
> training and experience. For a program like this, outsourcing it is
> really the best way to go, and it's certainly more likely to be
> persuasive.


Yes.


- d.

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