[OpenGLAM] mobile scanner

Fri Feb 15 17:45:24 UTC 2013

Thanks for the mention, Sarah. The US National Archives does have a plan in
the works for a mobile scanning program, too, based on the "Scannebago"
concept first proposed at a DPLA conference (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scannebago). The plan was at least to take it
around to NARA's many regional archival facilities around the US, but also
to hopefully involve state or other local archives. I am no longer working
on the project, but I know the Office of Innovation was at the point of
securing funding late last year when I was there, so I would hope it
happens sometime this year.

In my view, the biggest obstacle (aside from necessary funding), and the
thing that separates the mobile scanning idea from the other "hack bus"
concepts, will always be that most cultural institutions do not have a
ready procedure in place for volunteer-contributed digital objects or
metadata. And the object of any such project should be to work with the
institution so that the scans are actually going into an online collections
catalog with institutional authority and standard metadata formats and not
just being sent to the Internet Archive or Wikimedia Commons (though they
could certainly end up their since they are open).

Dominic

On 14 February 2013 14:16, Sarah Stierch
<sarah.stierch at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'sarah.stierch at gmail.com');>
> wrote:

>  Hi Daniel,
>
> Not sure if this helps at all, but, the National Archive and Records
> Administration here in the US hosts "scanathons," you can read a blog about
> it here:
>
> http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=5819
>
> Yes, Wikipedians will totally go to a plan and scan the heck out of
> anything for free pizza :)   I'm happy to connect you with the organizer of
> the events, Dominic McDevitt-Parks, if you wish! But, I know it's nothing
> on wheels....  :)
>
> -Sarah
>
>
> On 2/14/13 10:56 AM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>
> So who should follow up? @Joris?
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 11 Feb 2013, at 22:09, Daniel Dietrich <ddie at ddie.me> <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'ddie at ddie.me');> wrote:
>
>
>  On 11 Feb 2013, at 21:33, Brewster Kahle <brewster at archive.org> <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'brewster at archive.org');> wrote:
>
>
>  that sounds like fun.
>
> we did a bookmobile where we printed and bound material.  it was mostly a demonstration rather than a useful tool.
>
> we have set up book  scanners in lots of places, but it is a project so we try to keep them going in once place for a year or two.
>
> we have used flat bed scanners in a local library to do menus or whatever which was a fun project, but small scale.
>
> love to get the digital content.  this can be uploaded pretty easily at this point (we have a new uploader that works on all browsers other than IE:   http://archive.org/upload )
>
> let us know how we can help.
>
> -brewster
>
>
> On 2/10/13 10:44 AM, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>
>  Dear Brewster,
>
> I hope this mail finds you well. People at the open GLAM working group [1] of the OKFN are thinking to setup a mobile digitalisation unit: A small truck with a scanner so we can travel from Town to Town visiting cultural heritage institutions all over Europe as a campaign to open up cultural heritage data.
>
> We would love to learn from you! Do I remember right you guis at Archives.org had something like this? If so can you guid us to some of the technical setup and perhaps more important on your experience with such an endeavour. Can you help?
>
>
> All the best
> Daniel
>
> 1. http://openglam.org/
>
>
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