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Two million milestone for the digital library programme
Since the launch of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics in March earlier this year, we have continued to add content to our digital library at a growing pace. Our Medical Officer of Health (MOH) report project has seen nearly 500,000 images… Continue reading
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Digitisation Open Days at the Wellcome Library
Would you like to learn more about digitisation at the Wellcome Library? We are holding a series of Digitisation Open Days throughout 2013 to provide a behind-the-scenes view of our digitisation programme. We will cover: what is available digitally and… Continue reading
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Half a million milestone
We have recently completed processing half a million images in our workflow system (Goobi) ahead of making our new website available to the public later on this year. These images are the product of on-site digitisation of our archives and… Continue reading
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OCRing typescript: A benchmarking test with PRImA
During our pilot phase, we plan to add over 1 million images of archives to the Wellcome Library website, all created during the 20th century. Much of this is comprised of typescript: letters, drafts of papers and articles, research notes,… Continue reading
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Serving servers: a technical infrastructure plan
As we aim to provide a fast, efficient and robust technical architecture for the Wellcome Digital Library, the Wellcome Trust IT department has been working closely with our software suppliers to specify a suitable server architecture. This work is still… Continue reading
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Clearing copyright for books: preliminary ARROW results
As part of the genetics books project, we are tackling issues of copyright clearance and due diligence head on. Up to 90% of this collection is in copyright, or is likely to be in copyright, so developing a copyright clearance… Continue reading
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Learning lessons on the Genetics Books digitisation project
A key component of the theme of our digitisation pilot programme – “Foundations of Modern Genetics” – is a set of printed textbooks and secondary sources published between 1850 and 1990 that shed light on the development of genetic and… Continue reading
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Wellcome Digital Library update
The Wellcome Digital Library pilot has been underway for 18 months with 6 months to go before we launch the new Library website. This will provide access to a wide range of digital content related to the Foundations of Genetics… Continue reading
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Medical Officer of Health reports to be digitised
The Wellcome Library has received JISC funding towards the creation of a major free online dataset covering public health in London from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. This project is based on the reports of the Medical… Continue reading
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ALCS and PLS to provide ‘rights identification service’ for book digitisation
As described in a press release issued today, the Wellcome Library will be working in collaboration with the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) to identify rights holders of in-copyright books for digitisation. This… Continue reading