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Challenging our understanding of Digitisation

At the forthcoming Developer Happiness Days one of the sessions planned to take place will be exploring a DIY digitisation workflow: Taking you from the act of scanning images and objects, learning how to process and edit them with software like ocrupus, blender and OpenCV, storing and manipulating them online and finally, through to printing […]

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Methodology Projects 2006-2009

How to digitise newspapers

As phase 2 of the British Libray’s newspaper digitisation programme prepares to conclude (1m more pages are due to be added in the coming months), there are some interesting reports about the digitisation process becoming available. The project’s final report looks at the issues such as the capture of metadata, the standards used, and the […]