Everyone, Since interest in the new IDPF "EPub" e-book open standard appears to be growing by leaps and bounds, I've started a new YahooGroup for detailed...
Hello, I am embarking on an electronic publication project for a small public library system. We will be collecting the content and editing it for the local...
There is an excellent writer of useful software, many of it for e-books. His website is called Spacejock. He also writes novels, and got the idea of writing...
Hi Jess, I wrote the reply below before I realized you were the person asking, and you know our UVic work pretty well, so I guess you're already aware of these...
Hi Martin, the ACH/ALLC program is the most relevant model I have found so far. I will be out in Victoria for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute ...
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Julie Martin Carlson
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May 19, 2008 6:26 pm
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The good news is that they're giving the contributing libraries the scans. -- g ... Dear Live Search Books Publisher Program Partner, We are writing today to...
Thanks for the info. I will have to look into this but I also do not speak a word of Russian. I believe the ABBYY Fine Reader package is also developed by a...
Allen Kleiman
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May 27, 2008 1:17 pm
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Hello, I am working currently on creating MARC records for a bunch of digitized books so libraries can import them. One interesting question that has come up...
Hello, For most of the projects I work with a new record is created for the digital version with reference back to the source formats. Some projects then...
Palmer,Gayle
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Jun 19, 2008 6:08 pm
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There's a thread on read20-l that talks about the assignment of ISBN numbers to works. If I read it right - and I'm not a librarian - you might reasonably...
Hi This is the answer from our head of Cataloguing at the University of Auckland. John ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...
When we digitize a work we add a link to the object in our digital repository to the extant bibliographic record for the physical item, both in our local...
At the State Publications section of the Colorado State Library we catalog our digital records separately from the original format, while using a 776 field and...
Zimmer, Amy
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Jun 23, 2008 4:35 pm
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... There are two ways: Either you view the digitization project as a "library" that holds a (digital) copy of the book, or you view the digitization project...
[Posted to PADG, DigLib, Digital-Text, and Digipres] I'm looking for recommendations for a software program to help me manage multiple digitization moving...
Hello, I am very interested in the answers to this question too. Respectfully, Devhra Devhra BennettJones, CA Digital Archivist Abilene Library Consortium 3305...
Devhra BennettJones
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Jul 2, 2008 4:44 pm
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Microsoft Project is not inexpensive, but otherwise it meets all your requirements: Here's a review of the 2002 version: ...
Hello everybody, I have a couple of books to digitalize but don want to expend a lot of money. Can anybody giveme cheap ideas how to digitalize a book and put...
fastest invovles a good (expensive) digital camera and a copystand. failing that, I would photocopy the books (much faster than flatbed scanning) and feed the...
... If you have a halfway decent digital camera and time on your hands, you could just photograph the pages, import the resulting files into a word document,...
It is true that photocopying may be faster than flat-bed scanning, but it may not give as good results. It also involves all that paper. The fastest scanner...
If I had only a couple of books to scan and wanted decent quality, PDF, (OCR, maybe?), I'd consider contacting a vendor rather than invest in equipment. I...
... In a modest home volunteer operation, I've been using an HP 4670 "See-Thru" scanner to archive about 200 books so far, some as big as 1200 pages, most...
Nick: There is no doubt you are the master at this. Do you know how to prompt for another page in ABBYY Fine reader scan in ADF mode? That is, after the last ...
Allen Kleiman
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Jul 14, 2008 6:44 pm
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note that, for digital cameras, ABBYY, and possibly other programs, have a 'digital camera OCR' that is supposedly specifically tailored for the sort of page...
Regarding Allen's query, I don't know the answer. This because I don't scan right into FineReader. Normally I have been using a Plustek OptikBook 3600. Since...
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