The market for large-format flatbed scanners is shrinking, so products turn over slowly and development is far behind my expectations. That said, the Epson GT-1500 doesn’t look like a bad choice for tight budgets. It has a relatively low maximum resolution of only 600DPI, but has the highest claimed scan speed of 30 seconds at [...]
Posted January 30, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: archive, archives, digital archive, document imaging, large format scanner, libraries, library, scanner, scanners. 2 Comments.
I mentioned SHERPA a while ago:
SHERPA is a large consortial UK project that’s attempting to build an academic archive/repository for 20 institutions, including the British Library and Cambridge University. [link added]
I bring this up again now because they’ve got some advice for people on the subject of digital archives. They recommend EPrints, an open source [...]
Posted January 26, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: academic repository, archive, digital archive, dspace, eprints, institutional repository, libraries, library, repositories, sherpa. 4 Comments.
