Category Archives: Work-related

They came (to the Library) from outer space

3D models of meteorites, created using photogrammetry. Meteorites by Harvard Library on Sketchfab

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Digitization: Current Practices to Future Prophecies

“Digitization: Current Practices to Future Prophecies” Chris Edwards, the Getty’s Imaging and Digital Media Architect, presentation at Documenta conference in November 2018. https://player.admiralcloud.com/?v=dfd621a1-bbe9-4196-8166-802d117d7dc2 full conference info: https://www.documenta-archiv.de/en/aktuell/termine/1362/conference-archiving-the-unarchivable-das-unarchivierbare-archivieren

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RetroReveal

retroReveal provides documentation and web based image processing algorithms designed to help people discover hidden content. While the current version of the site provides basic assistance with image processing, we will be adding support for collaborative work among scholarly communities … Continue reading

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Book handling per Frick Collection

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Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects

Corning Museum of Glass This is the first of a series of blog posts addressing photographic lighting techniques for transparent glasses.

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Captain Capture

  http://dpo.si.edu/sites/dpo.ocio.si.edu/files/DPO_CaptainCapture_Comic-FINAL_pagebypage.pdf

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Squeeze Imaging Project

The Smithsonian Institution employed RTI to image a collection of squeezes.

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Welcome to the MiniDome!

The Folger Shakespeare Library recently (August 2013) hosted a two-day conference exploring “new tools for the study of English and Continental bookbinding and sharing new scholarship in the materiality of the book.”  At the conference a workshop on a new … Continue reading

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Colonists’ 1767 petition uncovered in a Harvard library foreshadows the split with Britain

“Harvard archivists have made what they call “a Revolutionary discovery” in the stacks at Houghton Library.”

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Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary

More info http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/transcriptions.htm Muti-Spectral Camera http://www.mega-vision.com/cultural_heritage.html

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