[Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 64, Issue 51

[Geoffrey Plourde]

Digitizing isn't really that hard. You take a scanner, upload an image, label it, repeat. 




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From: Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:28:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 64, Issue 51

2009/7/18 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
> Put me in touch with instructors at art schools and I'll incorporate
> restoration into their curriculum.  You'll be surprised how scaleable this
> is, particularly if we work out exhibition opportunities.
>
> -Durova

Restoration isn't the problem for the most part. The English part of
the National Monuments Record contains about 10 million items (mostly
photos I think). Wales and Scotland ad few million more.

That includes a fairly complete public domain aerial survey of the UK
from the 1940s.

We do not have the capacity to support digitalization on that scale.
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geni
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Are you talking about our capacity or their capacity?  The Library of
Congress has 14 million items and has been digitizing since 1994.  It's an
ongoing process; they've developed excellent protocols.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/techIn.html

-Durova

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