Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets

2013-02-23 Thread Dave Caroline
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: We have a few digitized books, (some of them are old -- we're talking 500 years). Sizes are all over the place but the big ones are easily the size of a large briefcase. We want to make these works more

Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets

2013-02-23 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I did PDF. There are about no studies on PDF size and usability. What I did is go to gray scale for text pages to knock down file size, played with optimizing, and broke super long (think 3K page book) files in smaller chunks When I looked at other big long books online, I found they

Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets

2013-02-23 Thread Andrew Hankinson
Hi Kyle, You might want to have a look at our Diva viewer (http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/diva/). We've tested it on books that are over 100GB total, and images that are around 200MB each. For example: http://coltrane.music.mcgill.ca/salzinnes/experiments/diva-cci-tif/ Each page is about 180MB

[CODE4LIB] Job: Publishing Assistant at University of Surrey

2013-02-23 Thread jobs
Ref. 9251 Salary up to £24,049 per annum (pro-rata) 21 hours per week The Department of Sociology wishes to appoint a part-time Publishing Assistant to cover a period of maternity leave. You will provide an efficient administrative and secretarial support for Sociological Research

[CODE4LIB] Job: PhD position, numerical modeling of wood damage for museum conservation at Eindhoven University of Technology

2013-02-23 Thread jobs
**Job description** **The Climate4Wood project:** The Climate4Wood project is funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research): Science4Arts which aims to develop and strengthen interchange between the research of various research institutions and the museological field

[CODE4LIB] Job: Publishing Assistant at University of Surrey

2013-02-23 Thread jobs
The Department of Sociology wishes to appoint a part-time Publishing Assistant to cover a period of maternity leave. You will provide an efficient administrative and secretarial support for Sociological Research Online, an electronic journal. Main duties include maintaining the journal's

[CODE4LIB] jobs.code4lib.org and job locations

2013-02-23 Thread Ed Summers
If you happen to post jobs to code4lib.org you'll notice that you can now add a location for the job. In fact you are required to fill it in when posting. The location input field uses Freebase Suggest just like the employer and tag fields. When you select an employer the location will

Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs.code4lib.org and job locations

2013-02-23 Thread Ed Summers
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: If you happen to post jobs to code4lib.org you'll notice that you can now add a location for the job. In fact you are required to fill it in when posting. s/code4lib.org/jobs.code4lib.org/ That's what I get for writing email at