Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Taylor
Joe Atzberger writes: If you want real 300 dpi images, at anything like the quality you get from a flatbed scanner, then you're going to need cameras much more expensive than $100. Or just wait, say, about 3 years. Well, maybe. I guess not, though: the factor limiting image quality

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-02 Thread Riley, Jenn
One thing I note in the current SRU list is that versioning might be an issue. MODS 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 all have different identifiers (naturally) but the same short name. I've run into this issue with OAI-PMH, where there isn't a formal registry of metadata formats but general conventions

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-02 Thread st...@archive.org
On 5/1/09 8:27 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: Does anybody have a printed test sheet that we can scan or photo, and then compare the resulting digital images? It should have lines at various densities and areas of different colours, just like an old TV test image. Can you buy such calibration

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-02 Thread Lars Aronsson
st...@archive.org wrote: archive.org scans typically include a color card target image near the back (or front) of the book, e.g. That's great. But where do you buy these target cards? And are they useful for testing small compact cameras? An important difference between the bkrpr.org