On 1 August 2012 14:51, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> The Internet Archive would be the best people to talk to about this; > they've experience in deploying scanning machines and training > individuals to operate them. I don't know how much the hardware costs, > but it seems there's one installed at the Natural History Museum: > http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/library/blog/2012/07/25/bhl-the-vast-library-of-life > It might be worth talking to them and asking if we can train a > volunteer to use the hardware on an occasional basis, during slack > time, to run our own programs. They have the software in place to > contribute copies to IA (which ought to be best practice for our > digitisation programs anyway), and we can handle the Commons side > ourselves; all we need to do then is source the books! > I'm happy to contact them and make enquiries about this, unless > someone else already has NHM contacts - anyone? +1 > *However*, this is the general case for digitisation of normal print > works. For manuscript material like this - rare, probably very > fragile, and needing careful curation during the scanning process - > I'd be really reluctant to let it near a volunteer who didn't have > training and experience. For a program like this, outsourcing it is > really the best way to go, and it's certainly more likely to be > persuasive. Yes. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
