[humanities-dev] Book scanning

Thu Sep 20 20:10:00 UTC 2012

I believe the Internet Archive has scanning facilities in London that
volunteers are free to use (given basic training). Shall we try and
find out?

J.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> 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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