Digital Developments
Find out about the latest developments on our website, including new web tools, library systems developments and digitisation projects. Also, watch out for opportunities to give us feedback and take part in website user activities.
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Online Resources: ACLS Humanities E-book
Following the Wellcome Library’s recent successful trial of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-book, we’re delighted to announce that we’re now making this database available to Library readers. Over 3,300 high-quality monographs in the humanities are included… 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
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Guest blog post: Digitising early printed books at the Wellcome Library
Karine Larose and Jeremy Uhl are working on the Early European Books digitisation project at the Wellcome Library. They are empolyees of Diadeis, a digitisation company based in France, and work on site alongside the rest of the Wellcome’s digitisation… Continue reading
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Early English Books Online: medical content now findable on the Library catalogue
We are very pleased to announce that over 9,000 records for medical resources in Early English Books Online (EEBO) have been added to the Library Catalogue. EEBO is one of the most popular electronic resources the Library offers, with access… Continue reading
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Digitising the archives: the Wellcome Library approach
Like most research libraries and archives repositories, the Wellcome Library is currently planning to digitise quantities of its unique holdings and provide remote access to the digitised content over the Web. Among the many challenges that such plans present, perhaps… Continue reading
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Preserving our digital assets #2 – WORM storage
This post follows on from my earlier description of our DAM system (Safety Deposit Box or SDB), which manages long-term preservation and access to our digital assets. Here we turn to the back-end of the back-end: storage. There are a… Continue reading
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Simplifying our JPEG2000 conversion workflow
Over the summer, we have been working to streamline our JPEG 2000 conversion workflow. With the help of software developers from Genisys – one of the Trust’s strategic IT development and support partners – we have put the LuraWave command… Continue reading
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Digitising our early European printed books
As part of the Wellcome Digital Library pilot project, we’re joining forces with ProQuest to digitise over fifteen thousand volumes from our rare book collection. They will be made available through ProQuest’s new Early European Books (EEB) database – a… Continue reading
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Europeana Libraries highlights
Europeana Libraries has produced a lovely video to highlight a selection of the more than 5 million objects which the project will put online in the coming 2 years. The clip reveals the great variety of objects, ranging from ancient… Continue reading