[humanities-dev] Book scanning

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Thu Sep 20 19:45:40 UTC 2012


On 09/20/2012 11:09 AM, Iain Emsley wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Thanks for the invite to the Cultural Commons meeting. Thought provoking
> stuff indeed. I was thinking yesterday and over this morning about the
> Digitisation Project which the Open Rights Group have started. We've
> discussed our own book scanner and crowd sourcing on the list but not
> got too far with it as far as I can tell. (If I am wrong, please let me
> know - I know I've got some things running but not in releasable state.)
> Is it worth throwing any effort that we have towards
> http://opendigitisation.org/ and getting involved there rather than
> re-invent the wheel? Javier seems to have a really good idea about what
> is involved at various levels.

I have a few books I'd like to get digitised (Graves Art Sales vol 1-3, 
only my low quality scan of the first one is on archive.org so far).

So I'm interested in any access to book scanning facilities in the UK 
(London is ideal)...

- Rob.





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