Dear Dot,
You should take a look at where people discuss and build different types of scanning/digitalizing machines, including portable ones meant to be used in archives. You can find some are really nice designs there, as well as software that people use to process those images.
Best regards, Maxim G. Romanov
Doctoral Student in Arabic & Islamic Studies Department of Near Eastern Studies University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Dot Porter dot.porter@gmail.com wrote:
Hello list,
Are there any best practices aimed at scholars who wish to take images of manuscripts "in the field", using their own equipment? I'm thinking particularly of very remote repositories, that would not have their own digitization equipment; for a scholar interested in imaging only one or two manuscripts it might not be reasonable to try to have a professional set-up (with special book-cradle, special lighting, etc.). However even in those circumstances it's important to maintain high quality both in imaging and in metadata. I know for a fact that there are people doing work like that, hopefully some of them are on this list. Has anyone actually taken the time to write up best practices, though?
And if not, perhaps we need some.
Thanks, Dot
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