The UBC Library Digitization Centre: Our Equipment and Its Uses
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Presented at the 2013 British Columbia Library Association annual conference in Richmond, BC May 10. Robert Stibravy is the Digital Projects Librarian at UBC Library.
The UBC Library Digitization Centre: Our Equipment and Its Uses
- 1. Our Equipment And Its Uses Robert Stibravy, Digital Projects Librarian
- 2. Photographic workstation, used primarily for large, flat items up to 40x60
- 3. Shot as two page spread then split in post-processing
- 4. The vacuum is used to flatten the item to help eliminate focus and shadowing issues
- 5. Wide format scanner up to 54 (and as long as the file size will allow)
- 6. Why not the TTI? Avoid any possible aberrations in GIS use
- 7. Very good for fragile materials
- 8. Used for fragile, bound textual materials
- 9. Pages are shot in sequence
- 10. A bound serial There needs to be an adequate gutter
- 11. Large format flatbed scanner
- 12. The flatbed does an excellent job due to its design
- 13. Standard size flatbed scanner
- 14. The flatbed delivers high fidelity
- 16. Microfilm The image quality will depend on the film quality
- 17. The scanner can accept various sizes of fiche
- 18. High speed document scanner
- 19. Standard textual documents The Fujitsu scans 90 pages/minute duplex
- 20. Laboratory notebooks Even with good quality the metadata will need to be transcribed
- 21. The old school are often in dire need of digitization
- 22. Digitized as a WAV file with derivatives made as needed
- 23. This one is a U-matic
- 24. This one is from the Westland project
- 25. This model can interface via USB or RCA connector
- 26. The original is encoded as an uncompressed WAV and derivatives made as needed Dr. Sidney H Zbarsky (1920-2002)
- 27. Some sites to enjoy: 転UBC Library Digital Collections ≒ http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/ 転British Columbia Bibliography ≒ http://bcbib.library.ubc.ca/ 転British Columbia Historical Newspapers ≒ http://historicalnewspapers.library.ubc.ca/