[OpenGLAM] mobile scanner

Sat Feb 16 07:40:54 UTC 2013

Even a fleet of buses would not make a real dent on actual digitisation
needs. This kind of thing is about bringing people together and awareness
raising.

Most glams won't let you take materials to a bus or truck anyway.
Hopefully you would leave a trail of local groups doing ongoing work of the
kind you describe.

The problem with libraries keeping digital vaults is very real and based on
the disconnect between preservation and dissemination.  The British Library
also spend all their digital budget this way.
On Feb 15, 2013 5:06 PM, "Lars Aronsson" <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> On 02/15/2013 09:47 AM, Sanna Marttila wrote:
>
>> Now it feels this idea could actually happen :-)
>>
>
> Do you want to paint a bus, travel, and meet wonderful
> people, or do you want to digitize books, or do you want
> to provide digitized information that people find useful?
> Which aspect (bus, scan, access) is more important to you?
>
> If you want to paint a bus, it's easier if you skip the
> complicated part with scanning books. Make it a peace
> mission or something.
>
> Lots of Swedish archives and museums digitize their
> collections without publishing anything. The digitized
> materials are locked in to servers the public can't use.
> This is a useful path if the very digitization is important
> to you, but public access is not. In your own country,
> Finland, the national library has digitized thousands of
> old magazines and journals, but they are published on
> a server that Google doesn't index, to make sure that
> people who search for information can't find it.
>
> If you want to provide useful information, then you
> should start with the readers. They use Google to find
> facts, and often but not always the facts are provided
> by Wikipedia. Add topics to Wikipedia! To do this, you
> need to cite literature. Sometimes books are available
> online already, but in other cases good books need to
> be scanned. The Internet Archive has a wonderful
> project for digitizing books, a project that is currently
> underutilized. If you can look up a book in the library
> of the University of Toronto, you can make them scan
> the book and put it online. This is a lot of boring work
> that you do in front of a computer, alone, that brings
> useful information to people. (Or you could negotiate
> with the Finnish national library to open their servers,
> which takes some time, but doesn't involve any bus
> painting.)
>
> If you would rather paint a bus, why scan books? Why
> do you have to pretend that your bus-painting project
> has anything to do with book scanning?
>
>
> --
>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>   Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
>
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