Workshopping up a storm

I'm in Kimberley, running a workshop on digitisation, organised by the Africana Library Trust. It's an introduction, including everything from planning a project, to the how of scanning, to metadata, to displaying your images.

So far, I think the most valuable part has been the discussion and group work.

Here's the first of a series of presentations that I've been giving them:

Introduction to Digitisation

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File this under cool stuff you can't really use

"The system, developed by lab members Takashi Nakashima and Yoshihiro Watanabe, lets you scan a book by rapidly flipping its pages in front of a high-speed camera. They call this method book flipping scanning. They told me they can digitize a 200-page book in one minute, and hope to make that even faster."

"True, it might not be a perfect, high-resolution copy of the book. The scanning process might skip pages and, well, your fingers might appear in the images. And that's not to mention all the copyright questions."

Read more here.

Finding Subject-Specific Digital Media Resources

Thanks, JISC, for this list of web sites providing access to media of various types for all subject areas. It would be good to see something similar being generated for South African digital content.