Dear Torsten,
I apologize for my vagueness. The information you provide re: the "nuts and bolts" of the field is very helpful, but the student is also curious about programs, etc, that she can go into to receive training in the field. I found some information from the American Institute for Conservation, thinking perhaps the conservator programs in the US and abroad might be a way to go, but I was wondering if the list had (career?) advice for a student who is interested in going into the field of manuscript conservation. I hope this is a little clearer now!
Thank you all for the suggestions thus far!
~w. -- Wendy Marie Hoofnagle University of Northern Iowa Department of English Language and Literature Baker 117 Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0502 Office: 319.273.7053 Cell: 860.753.2211
----- Original Message ---- From: Torsten Schassan schassan@hab.de To: dm-l@uleth.ca Sent: Fri, March 25, 2011 4:25:47 AM Subject: Re: [dm-l] advice for student?
Hi,
even after Douglas' reply I'm not quite sure I understand the question nor the answers: Are we talking about (are you in need of)
- standards for digitisation - - concerning equipment - - concerning parameters during digitisation - how to organise digitisation - who started digitisation - how to present manuscripts online?
For each of the aspects there are lots of best-practice papers out there, almost every digitisation project has (or should have) these.
Some places/papers to start with:
- "DFG-Praxisregeln Digitalisierung"[1] (in German, sorry). - Digital Scriptorium[2, look for "Technical Information"] - e-codices[3]
to name just a few. If I knew more about the real interests I might give more references.
Best, Torsten
[1] http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/praxisregeln_digital...
[2] http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/about/
[3] http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/info
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