Who only knows how much this cost to get/operate...but the Smithsonian is digitizing their historic currency collection, and it is basically a digitization conveyor belt. Here's a Vine: https://vine.co/v/OhhxK615gt6 And a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0Xet2kpqA#t=11
As someone whose first museum job was photographing the collection with a digital scanning back that took 4 or 5 minutes per fussy exposure...this looks like heaven. Cheers, Tracey Tracey Berg-Fulton, M.Litt. Collections Database Associate Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [email protected] 412.622.6509 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Barnes Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 3:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MCN-L] High efficiency scanners I'm not sure what you have to scan but have you looked at what the Internet Archive offers? 10 cents a page. https://archive.org/scanning Brewster Kahle gave a talk at NDF last year and I was very impressed with their setup. They will be bringing out a DIY $10K scanner this year which looks like a great option for cheapish, high volume scanning. Cheers Glen > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:48:20 -0800 > From: "Locker, Mark" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [MCN-L] High efficiency scanners > Message-ID: > < > 00a178ba63486d488b5afd67e61d80bc042f473...@beavertn-svr-vc.nike.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello, > > Anybody have experience with scanning high volumes of material? > Looking for something that is fast and high quality. Any ideas? > > Thanks > Mark > > Mark T. Locker > Data Manager, DNA > Office: 503.532.3280 > Cell: 503.810.2461 > dna.nike.com > > > ------------------------------ > The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: [email protected] To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
