Part of Gallica,
the digitization project of BNdF.
Stressing «the centuries - old interface between the Christian West and the Arab and Islamic world,» this year's PROSE / Hawkins winner is the Arcadian Library Online, an ongoing
digitization project of Bloomsbury.
As for
the digitization project of the Mewar Ramayana, the British Library collaborated with the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya in Mumbai, as the original manuscript was split between the two.
Additionally, the Digital Toolbox offers strategies to help
digitization projects of all scopes and sizes as well as project management tips.
Not exact matches
The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), on Tuesday raided the premises
of the IT firm which executed the $ 72 million
digitization project for the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).
A team
of researchers from the Smithsonian Department
of Botany, Data Science Lab, and
Digitization Program Office recently collaborated with NVIDIA to carry out a pilot
project using deep learning approaches to dig into digitized herbarium specimens.
Assistant Curator and Digital Herbarium Coordinator Dorothy Allard and undergraduate student herbarium assistant Gabriel Martin - Scruce pose with some herbarium specimens upon completion
of the
digitization project
Highly trained staff combines state -
of - the - art
digitization equipment with best practices to provide support for collection - level
digitization projects, systematic
digitization, as well as on - demand requests by Stanford researchers and other library patrons.»
Worth mentioning here, the National Library Board is currently engaged in another
digitization project in collaboration with the British Library to make digital copies
of rare Malay manuscripts.
Aptara has a 25 year history
of helping content providers and rights holders with their
digitization needs, essentially working with the complete, ready - to - go file and transforming it into their final publishing
project.
A massive
digitization project involving the cooperation
of two governments and the crusading efforts by several individual stakeholders led to the donation
of the Hemingway Collection to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2008.
Readers interested in user experience design might like a quick and dirty video I created which shows the different user experiences
of our platform and Comixology, iBooks and a custom made app by the guy who was advising on the Cerebus
digitization project.
Funding the
project will be William and Judith Bollinger, who have donated # 125,000 towards the completion
of the
digitization work over the next five years.
Only a matter
of weeks ago, US Circuit Judge Denny Chin ruled that Google's massive
digitization project fell within the reasonable bounds
of copyright and fair use, throwing out the copyright lawsuit brought about by Authors Guild.
Only a matter
of weeks ago, US Circuit Judge Denny Chin ruled that Google's massive
digitization project fell within the reasonable bounds... [Read more...]
As with the IMLS
project, the second phase
of digitization completed by Newspapers.com uses negative microfilm provided by the Library
of Congress.»
The financial needs
of a task this large are fortunately something that the DPLA leadership have addressed from the very beginning, causing them to formulate a structure in which the DPLA is more
of an ongoing
project rather than a race to the finish line
of digitization of content.
Google's ambitious
digitization project has started on that path to preservation, but the initial release yesterday from the Library
of Congress has added even more highly valuable content: digital audio
of famous recordings.
as back catalog print books themselves within these facilities have disappeared in collaboration
of themselves with google's
digitization project and amazon's distribution and control
of digitized new books --
(Microsoft made a run at doing a competing
digitization project and when it didn't meet their financial criteria, gave up competing and joined the chorus
of those attacking Google.)
We are currently in the second phase
of the Black Mountain College Research &
Digitization Project, which began in 2008.
NEH funds are supporting 253 humanities
projects across the United States, among them, «a video - based web platform allowing scholars to publish papers in sign language, and a new tool that uses digital analysis
of architectural floor plans to show how Frank Lloyd Wright's structures changed over time,... and a local community
digitization projects will preserve historic materials held by the congregations
of African - American churches in Georgia»
Artists are provided assistance with organization, documentation,
digitization of works and records, as well as help with special
projects related to the preservation
of their history and estate planning.
Interns will become a vital member
of our library and art cataloging team by assisting with special
projects, including data entry, cataloging library and special collections materials,
digitization projects, archival processing and re-housing materials.
Prior to working in the UK, Sierra worked in Collections Management at the Smithsonian's National Museum
of American History, conducting a collection's inventory and
digitization project.
He has overseen additions to the permanent collection
of works by Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 — 1872), Raphaelle Peale (in memory
of Ruth Carter Stevenson), and John Singer Sargent (1856 — 1925), and he initiated major upgrades to the museum's digital presence, including the Connecting to Exhibitions
digitization project, a two - year initiative that will allow online access to many
of the museum's previous art exhibitions.
Programmed by artist Mariam Ghani and independent curator Leeza Ahmady, this film screening juxtaposes contemporary Afghan shorts and selections drawn from the ongoing
digitization project in the archive
of Afghan Films, Afghanistan's national film institute (operated from 1967 to 1996).
The copies are smudged and almost illegible, and the reference to books by Benjamin such as The Work
of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction aligns the work squarely with recent artistic
projects dealing with Google Books» scanning process, which touch on issues like the nostalgia for paperbound books on one hand, and concerns about mass
digitization on the other.
Future plans for the
project involve
digitization of the department's print collection, including its celebrated group
of Rembrandt prints, as well as artists» sketchbooks, and expanded scholarly catalogue records.
But we have systematically sought to increase the data holdings in the past through international
projects such as the once a decade creation
of World Weather Records as well as NCEI's own
digitization of select Colonial Era archive data.
The library administrators worked with the university's in - house legal counsel to choose the interpretation
of the law that was, in their professional opinion, the correct interpretation for the
digitization project.
As an indication
of their awareness
of this loss, Canada's courthouse librarians are the profession's most avid supporters
of digitization projects for early Canadian law, though their libraries are regrettably the least able to undertake such
projects themselves.
A new
digitization project emerged as I was finishing this column — we have a small collection
of cassette tapes
of talks given by various staff and executives
of one
of my client tribunals.
This collection is part
of the Alberta Heritage
Digitization Project, a non-profit endeavour that ran from 1999 to 2010.
The Harvard Law School Library has launched Nuremberg Trials
Project: A Digital Document Collection, a Web site devoted to analysis and
digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials.
Besides the good feeling
of giving your withdrawn books to other libraries that need them instead
of dumpstering them, you can lend or give them to publishers engaged in
digitization projects that benefit us all.
Can we in Canada not shame our governments into digitizing the historical versions
of federal and provincial legislation in a manner similar to that done in Alberta through the Alberta Heritage
Digitization Project (AHDP)?
It looks as if the
digitization of libraries
project will ultimately spread access globally.
Not that the
digitization of paper is new to anyone here at Slaw, but the girth
of the
project is certainly worth noting:
There is a lot
of buzz about greening the library, time management, workflow,
digitization, budgeting, cost recovery, legal
project management, and ebooks.
The University
of Toronto librarian, currently on research leave, wants to develop an online registry
of Canadian government information
digitization projects.
Starting today, as part
of the Harvard - Ravel
digitization project, the comprehensive, authoritative collection
of California case law is available online at Ravel.
The developments discussed include: - University
of Michigan's portion
of Google Book Search - the Google Librarian Newsletters - improvements to Google Book Search («Find this book in a library» and «Find libraries» links)- University
of California joins Google Library
Project - Google's usage guidelines - some publishers admitting that Google Book Search is helping sales - value of using Google Book Search at the library reference desk - University of Wisconsin at Madison, Complutense University of Madrid, and the University of Virginia Library all joining the project - Google subpoenaed information on the book digitization efforts of Amazon and
Project - Google's usage guidelines - some publishers admitting that Google Book Search is helping sales - value
of using Google Book Search at the library reference desk - University
of Wisconsin at Madison, Complutense University
of Madrid, and the University
of Virginia Library all joining the
project - Google subpoenaed information on the book digitization efforts of Amazon and
project - Google subpoenaed information on the book
digitization efforts
of Amazon and Yahoo!
One
of the first priorities will be to identify «charter»
digitization projects to launch the new initiative.
Further to my previous post on this, I managed to find out more about
Project Alouette — Ted is right, it is part
of the Open Canada
Digitization Initiative, the name
Project Alouette was just announced before Christmas.
U.S. attorneys are being invited to adopt volumes
of the Federal Reporter in a current Law.gov
digitization project from PublicResource.org.
We at Osgoode are currently developing plans for a major expansion
of our «knowledge management» capability over the next year or two, investing heavily in state
of the art software that will enable us to take on some really large scale
digitization projects.
As part
of its
digitization project, the Ontario Legislative Library has been methodically breaking down the giant files created by the folks at the Internet Archive, and repackaging the documents in a more logical fashion.
The current issue
of the New Yorker has an article by Anthony Grafton called «
Digitization and Its Discontents» that discusses the ongoing «tension» between the traditional print library model versus the Google Book
projects of the world.
I recently attended a meeting where someone commented that the scanning part
of a
digitization project is the easy part.