[humanities-dev] Book scanning

[Iain Emsley]

I believe that this is one option the Open Digitisation is looking at 
and working out what facilities exist where. In the short term it may be 
something to look at for immediate needs. Anyone have a contact there?

I'll mail the Digitisation Project, unless anyone else is on the list, 
and see where things are?  If it is a long way off, then back to 
building our own?

Iain

On 20/09/12 23:10, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> 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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