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JOB TITLE: Product Manager, Online Experiences
DEPARTMENT: Technology
SUB-DEPARTMENT: Digital Media
OVERVIEW: The Product Manager manages the full development and production cycle
of the
Mark,
Mia is "spot on" about ABBYY being the 900-lb player in the room on the
commercial software side of things. And the Transkribus project is an
interesting choice when moving your requirements more into the handwriting
recognition/transcription area.
The first helpful thing is to
We have 100% standardized on the Panasonic PT-RZ470 series projectors. They
are only rated at 3000 lumens, but because of being the LED/Laser hybrid
they actually are much brighter. I would guess around the 4000 range. They
are rated for 20,000 hours of use before needing any sort of factory
Abbyy (http://www.abbyy.com/) seems to be the market leader for OCR. I'm
sure others will have examples of training OCR packages on their material
and building OCR into their digitisation workflow. Platforms like the
Internet Archive also produce OCR texts from uploaded files, and other
tools are
I am also interested in interoperability. Since we have a very small staff,
I work with artifacts, photographs, books, archival collections--just about
anything you can think of, as well as digital images, associated metadata,
and online database records. Juggling different systems and standards
I’m a big fan of Planar Systems. They are a very personal company in an
impersonal business whose product lines target the exhibition market. US based
with great personal support and their products are world class.
http://www.planar.com/products/large-format-displays/
I wrote this a few weeks
Given the unique requirements of museum projectors, (reliability and excellent
image quality, often in less than ideal lighting conditions), I find online
projector reviews leave me with questions.
I would rather hear from all of you what projectors you use, and what you think
of them.
I’ll go
