Small-scale digitization goes big time: Implementation of a scholarly digitization fund

Fast Digitization of Large-Scale Hazardous Facilities

Robotics technology has become a major interest for groups that deal with hazardous environments. Of special interest is the conversion from telepresence robotics to more automated approaches. In order to facilitate this conversion, we have developed a system for the fast acquisition of large-scale environments to develop the a priori information needed for prediction and performance optimizati...

Archaeology of a digitization

This study proposes an archaeology as a means of exploring the practices by which digitally-encoded resources are generated, circulated, and received. The discussion grapples with the ambiguous relationship between digitizations and their exemplars in the well-known database, Early English Books Online (EEBO), and suggests ways in which digitizations might be analyzed as witnesses of current pe...

Page-Image Error in Large-Scale Digitization

This paper presents and interprets data on digitization error gathered from four 1,000 volume random samples that represent the full range of source volumes digitized by Google and the Internet Archive over a six year period and deposited in the HathiTrust Digital Library. The paper summarizes the research method for the project and then presents summary findings on the distribution of page-ima...

Big Data and the Virtuous Circle of Railway Digitization

A Mass Digitization Primer

Many people are talking these days about “digitizing books.” But what does that really mean? This paper describes different kinds of digitizing, the pros and cons of each, and suggests a layered structure for understanding “digitization.” The Digital Age has brought many challenges for librarians. Most obvious are all the issues concerning “born-digital” material that academics and the general ...