[CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions

2009-06-18 Thread Deng, Sai
Hi, list, A while ago, I read some interesting discussion on how to use camera to produce archival-quality images from this list. Now, I have some imaging questions and I think this might be a good list to turn to. Thank you in advance! We are trying to add some herbarium images to our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions

2009-06-18 Thread Han, Yan
There are two things about archive images at least I can think of this moment: 1. the resolution: diff size/materials require different resolution. There is no one-size-fit-all. To make a judgment, I would like to know the image (color?), the size of the material?, 2. the file format: TIFF is

[CODE4LIB] [Fwd: Vocabulary Mapping Framework]

2009-06-18 Thread Corey A Harper
code4libbers, Interesting stuff afoot. The press release linked below is well worth a read. Apologies if you've already seen this Cheers, -Corey Original Message Subject:Vocabulary Mapping Framework Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:26:15 +0200 From: Frodl, Christine

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew Hankinson
Hi Sai, Archival Quality Images has some meaning, but it might be helpful to look up a standard and start your investigation for a new camera based on the recommendations of that standard. You might find this page from the Library of Congress helpful:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions

2009-06-18 Thread Deng, Sai
Andrew and Yan, Thanks for the reply and the information! About DSpace metadata registry, we can add new schema or new elements to it, but the elements won’t be searchable, right? (We can change the input-forms.xml to make it display in the submission workflow if we will have item by item

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew Hankinson
I'm pretty sure you can add extra fields to the dublin_core.xml file and import it. I think I did something like this a few years ago, but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. For the metadata creation, it might be worth your while to save the Excel spreadsheet to a CSV file and then write a parser (in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions

2009-06-18 Thread Toke Eskildsen
The Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd does have some issues with purple fringing (see http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilms8000fd/page5.asp for samples). In your image Astenophylla1-02710.jpg it is quite visible at the edge of the paper and around the bold letters in the bottom right corner. The