Archive Digitilization

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发信人: choi (choi), 信区: Literature
标  题: Archive Digitilization
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(1) David Sarno, Digital Technology Lets Libraries Share Their Fragile
Treasures With the World; Powerful scanners allow for the preservation and
easy dissemination of ancient texts, but the volume of material waiting to
be processed is enormous. Los Angeles Times, Nov. 24, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-digital-library-20101125,0,2150064.story
("Harvard-Yenching Library, likely the largest such collection outside of
China")

My comment:
(a) Story  of Red Plum Blossom 紅梅記 (by 明朝 周朝俊)
(b) Kirtas
http://www.kirtas.com

Check out the buttons in the left column: "Book digitalization Systems"  and
"Samples."

(c) The report mentions "Nancy Cline, the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard
College.

O, Harvard has not only endowed professorships but endowed librarian also.
(d) tranche (n; French for "slice")


(2) Joseph P Kahn, Camelot’s Archives, Available With the Click of a Mouse;
$10m project to digitize JFK archives underway. Boston Globe, Nov. 28, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2010/11/28/10m_project_to_digitize_jfk_archives_underway/

Quote:

"'Nowadays, the easiest part is scanning the material,' [James] Roth[,
library’s deputy director] said. 'The issue is, what do you do with all
those images? That’s the cutting-edge part of what we’re doing now.'

"Every document and image has been scanned by hand, to protect the originals
, at high resolution (600 dots per inch) to ensure that even pencil notes
would be legible.

My comment:
(a) Following quotation 1, answers appear: cataloging and "appending
relevant data to each document."
(b)
(i) Camelot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot
(the castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in
the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French
romances./ The name's derivation is also unknown)
(ii) "Camelot, a fond nickname for the relatively good times during the
early part of John F. Kennedy's presidency of the United States."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_(disambiguation)



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