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Preparing and planning a large archives digitisation project
Archives digitisation is currently underway in our Imaging Studio, with two full-time members and two part-time members of Library staff dedicated to preparing and digitising the items. We will talk more specifically about the work being carried out on these… Continue reading
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Behind the Scenes: Acquisitions team
A library must keep itself up-to-date with the latest books, journals, databases and special collections in order to maintain relevancy to its audiences. This month’s Behind the Scenes blog post focuses on the Acquisitions team, who manage many aspects of… Continue reading
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What will the Wellcome Digital Library offer?
The overall strategy of the Wellcome Digital Library is to support three activity layers aimed at different user behaviours: Engage – by highlighting the range of material available in the Library, and using actively curated content to encourage visitors to… Continue reading
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Guest post: JPEG2000 recipes for the Aware encoder
As our first guest poster, Bill Comstock, Head of Imaging Services at Harvard College Library, writes about the specific “recipes” used at Harvard for producing JPEG2000 images. I needed help remembering when it was that we began making JPEG2000 images.… Continue reading
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Determining rates of JPEG 2000 compression on a collection-by-collection basis
As a result of our decision to “go lossy”, we need to make sure that the level of lossiness is appropriate to the image content. We can’t do this on the individual image level, as there are simply too many… Continue reading
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BBC audio slideshow “The secret of life” highlights Wellcome digitisation project
The BBC has published an audio slideshow about the Wellcome Library’s newly announced digitisation project. The slideshow focuses primarily on the Crick archive, which, at 300 boxes of material, represents some quarter of a million pages to be made freely… Continue reading
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Wellcome Library launches major digitisation project
The Wellcome Library has announced the launch of an ambitious digitisation project, to provide free, online access to its collections, including archives and papers from Nobel prize-winning scientists Francis Crick, Fred Sanger and Peter Medawar: “Creation of the Wellcome Digital… Continue reading
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The JPEG2000 problem for this week
JPEG2000 isn’t the easiest of formats to disseminate. Browsers typically handle the format with difficulty and then require plugins or extensions to render the format. We don’t want our users to have to download anything just to be able to… Continue reading
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Behind the Scenes: Rare Books
High summer finds us in the cool basement stores where the Rare Books are kept. Nearly 70,000 printed books and pamphlets published up to 1850 are shelved here, making up one of the most comprehensive collections of early medical literature… Continue reading
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Driving UK Research report launched at Wellcome Trust
A collection of essays compiled by the British Library on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the digital world was launched at the Wellcome Trust today. The report, titled Driving UK Research: Is copyright a help or a hindrance?looks at the… Continue reading