LARGE IMAGE PROJECT
Robin Alston (mailto:uczcroa@UCL.AC.UK)
Thu, 17 Nov 1994 21:47:03 +0000
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 21:47:03 +0000
From: Robin Alston <mailto:uczcroa@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: LARGE IMAGE PROJECT
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I have been asked to advise on the best way forward for a national
institution which wants to digitise 6.5 million documents relating
to the 1914-18 War. The documents have been microfilmed - but not,
I think, to very high standards. The best one could hope for is
probably 100 dpi mailto:@ A4. There are no bureau facilities in the UK yet
which can handle such a large corpus. We are talking about 2250 CDs!
Does anyone know of a bureau which could handle such a large corpus
of microfilmed documents? The total file size may be even larger as
the documents are "dirty" and unlikely to compress to less than 60K.
The Mekel M400 or Sunrise scanners can, I know, cope with such a
volume of images: but it worries me that without some cleaning we
could end up with a vastly larger library than could be coped with
reasonably. There remains, of course, the problem of providing an
index to the library of CDs as well as individual indexes to each CD.
Anyone with experience in dealing with corpora of this size who would
care to share experience - please let me know.
Robin Alston
Professor of Library Studies
University College London
mailto:r.alston@ucl.ac.uk