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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Blog Carnivals
In one of Nick Poyntz’s recent articles on ‘Digital History’ for History Today – now collected as a Blog – he explains the concept of Blog Carnivals: “A blog carnival is a collection of posts on a particular theme or… Continue reading
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Recently added Blogs
Following on from our birthday post yesterday, as we’ve added a number of links to our ‘Blog List’ side bar over the last 12 months, we thought we would quickly flag up some of them. Institutions: Curators from the Science… Continue reading
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JPEG 2000 seminar – draft programme now available
Places are still available on the JPEG 2000 seminar to be held at the Wellcome Trust on 16 November 2010. Draft programme with timetable and confirmed speakers: 09:00 Registration, coffee 10:00 Welcome, introduction Christy Henshaw, Wellcome Library, Chair of JP2K-UK… Continue reading
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Papers, papers and yet more papers … preparing the Crick Archive for digitisation
When first faced with preparing around 300 boxes of Francis Crick’s personal papers for digitisation, I have to confess my heart sank. A far cry from the last very visual digitisation project of 3000 AIDS posters, I was daunted, not… Continue reading
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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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Evaluating losses
Bill Comstock, Head of Imaging Services at Harvard College Library, writes a second post about using Photoshop to evaluate lossy compressed images. If you decide to employ JPEG2000’s lossy compression scheme, you will also have to determine the degree to… 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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Elena Pierazzo on the Arabic ENRICH schema
Elena Pierazzo, from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London describes a new metadata schema for Arabic manuscript cataloguing. The Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership, as previously announced, is working toward providing greater access to the… 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