We have a Better Light scanner that has worked well for the types of jobs you
describe. We bought it through Archetype Digital Imaging in Foster City, CA.
Larry Guyer from Archetype set it up for us, provided training and continues to
support the product. For the record, I am not affiliated
Hello wise List-serve,
The University library is interested in finding out more information about book
scanners and I would love to hear any wisdom or recommendations you all may
have. The scanner will be used for the digitization of materials that are too
fragile or too large to be scanned on
Hi Sarah,
We noticed our Public Domain images show up on Wikimedia Commons, but we don't
have a direct relationship with you all. We suspect they are derivatives coming
from what we have uploaded to our Google Art Project page. Do you think this is
the case?
Does Google have a relationship wi
Interesting the emphasis on Wikimedia Commons and no mention of the Internet
Archive. Is that because the former is simply more familiar when we are talking
about image-only collections (granted, the bulk of what is out there, and the
only medium usefully addressed by flickr)?
ari
> On May 19,
Shelley Bernstein, the Vice Director of Digital Engagement & Technology at
the Brooklyn Museum, posted some interesting thoughts on why they left
Flickr entirely (even deleting their content and account) and moved over to
WIkimedia Commons.
Post
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/
Internet Archive is fabulous, but often text, video and audio based.
And whatever ends up on Internet Archive is often sucked onto Wikimedia
Commons, too.
:)
We also have WikiSource - which makes OCR look funny once you see how that
process works on WS: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page
Hello Flora,
If they are images from Google Art Project (and the image file page on Commons
should say where the image was sourced from) that's totally OK - and no, we
don't have a relationship with GAP - Commons is not quite a fan of GAP - the
images are generally bad quality (not representati
I'm a strong supporter of Wikimedia Commons, then again, I'm a long time
contributor and administrator on the project. I've facilitated programs for the
Walters Art Museum, two Smithsonian units, and advised on numerous other
projects for international colleagues.
I'm happy to provide some adv
