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What examples are there of digitization projects using OMR?
Optical Music Recognition is a like OCR but for recognizing musical notation. Are there any libraries using this as part of digitization projects? It strikes me that this could provide incredibly ...
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Features to consider for archival scanners?
My town has just started up a historic committee to collect and preserve historical documents and information.
We're starting to collect papers, books, maps, pictures, etc, but we're trying to ...
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What characteristics of the Qidenius Book Scanner would benefit a library with a collection of our size?
We want to scan a library with about 30,000 Books.
For that purpose we think about purchasing the Qidenius book scanner. What characteristics of the Qidenius Book Scanner would benefit a library ...
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What is the smallest average percentage of errors that you can achieve with today's OCRs (after book scanning) processes and software?
I have heard that an error rate of 5-10% in OCR is still a good average. Any experiences or facts regarding this?
I am writing "average" as of course the quality of the source makes a big difference.
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What is the structure of a digital collections team?
I am looking for info on large academic libraries which have a dedicated digital collections team (made up of digitization, metadata, web services, data visualization, etc.) - essentially, folks who ...
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How should a digitization effort for a library proceed?
If a library is looking into forming a digitization team dedicated to digitizing your rare & special collections:
How should what gets digitized be determined? Should this be focused more on ...
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What makes a successful digital scholarship centre?
Where I work, at the library for a large research university, we're investigating the creation of a digital scholarship centre. Some examples:
Brown's Center for Digital Scholarship
U Michigan's ...
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Is there any reason to digitize in full colour dissertations that were originally submitted in black & white?
We are in the midst of a large digitization project of the earliest dissertations at mpow. For the most part they were submitted in black & white, though some have colour inserts (maps, graphics). ...
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Is it advisable to establish a DOI number for rare objects that won't change hands?
If a library has a collection of rare, non-book items, is it advisable to establish a permanent digital record for these?
If the items are unlikely to change hands, does that influence the decision?
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Do libraries keep copies of scans created as part of interlibrary loan?
I have put in interlibrary loan requests for obscure old articles and been thrilled to quickly receive scans of the articles delivered to me over the web. I was curious to know if any participating ...
