[humanities-dev] Book scanning

Wed Sep 26 18:31:01 UTC 2012

That site has expanded since last time I saw it.

Best, Iain

On 26/09/12 15:32, Jamie M Folsom wrote:
> In case this hasn't come to the attention of the book scanning folks 
> on this list:
>
> http://www.diybookscanner.org/
>
> Best,
>
> Jamie
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> Jamie Folsom
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> MIT HyperStudio
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>>   1. Re: Book scanning (Iain Emsley)
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>> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:32:36 +0100
>> From: Iain Emsley <iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [humanities-dev] Book scanning
>> To: Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org>
>> Cc: humanities-dev at lists.okfn.org,"joris.pekel at okfn.org"
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>> Hi Sam and Joris,
>>
>> I think it would be a good idea to see where the ODP is and how we can
>> contribute. Sam, as you say we might be able to contribute resources or
>> ideas - I am sure we have plenty.
>>
>> Joris, an introduction would be great as would a small project.
>>
>> My main concern is that we don't spend energy re-inventing a wheel that
>> a project like ODP is working on. If we can help push it forward either
>> through practical help or taking some of the ideas and popping them into
>> practice, more power to us.
>>
>> I've been talking to Michael about the Data Wrangling Handbook and he's
>> keen to collaborate on that as well which I think goes towards one of
>> the conversations that we had.
>>
>> All best,
>>
>> Iain
>>
>>
>> On 25/09/12 10:21, Sam Leon wrote:
>>> Hi Iain,
>>>
>>> Javier is very keen to use open source tools developed by the OKFN or
>>> others as part of the Open Digitisation Project - and I think that
>>> project offers one of the most plausible avenues for actually putting
>>> some of the technologies being developed on this list to use.
>>>
>>> For those who don't already know what the Open Digitisation Project is
>>> I have attached a brief summary.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Iain Emsley
>>> <iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk <mailto:iain_emsley at austgate.co.uk>> 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.
>>>
>>>    Just a thought.
>>>
>>>    Iain
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>> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:59:13 +0200
>> From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>> Subject: Re: [humanities-dev] Book scanning
>> To: Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org>
>> Cc: humanities-dev at lists.okfn.org
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>> Just to let you all know - I've pinged some folks at the Internet
>> Archive about this and will let you know what they reply!
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>>> On 20/09/12 21:10, 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> That sounds good. :-)
>>>
>>> - Rob.
>>>
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