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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I have had the pleasure of getting a tour at the Bibliotheka Alexandrina. It
was impressive and it certainly is not that simple. Certainly not when you
want to have a high quality high volume protocol.
Thanks,
        GerardM

2009/7/19 Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>

> 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>
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> 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
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> 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.
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> That includes a fairly complete public domain aerial survey of the UK
> from the 1940s.
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> 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.
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> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/techIn.html
>
> -Durova
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