new high-resolution scans of the Voynich manuscript. Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.T he new scans are even sharper than earlier versions. Recent conservation work addressed folds and curls that had previously blocked some pages, and new scanning equipment made the color more accurate.
Reveal Digital works in true partnership with libraries to bring rare- and untapped content into the digital world. Using a revolutionary platform and framework, Reveal Digital empowers libraries to collaborate and create unique digital open-access collections using a strict cost-recovery funding model.
A non-profit membership organization. LYRASIS partners with libraries, archives and museums and other cultural heritage organizations to create, access and manage information with an emphasis on digital content, while building and sustaining collaboration, enhancing operations and technology, and increasing buying power.
INNOVATIVE RESEARCH presented at this website is developing and testing methods for measuring the severity of detectable errors in digitized books and validating the impact of error on the end-user. Here you will find information on the project, selected findings, and links to the project’s reports, presentations, publications, and products. HATHITRUST DIGITAL LIBRARY serves as a testbed of digitized books and serials for the project, which has three overlapping phases. Paul Conway, Associate Professor, PI.
IMPACT is a Centre of Competence that makes digitisation of historical printed text in Europe faster, cheaper and better, and provides tools, services and facilities for further advancement of the State of the Art in this field.
MetPublications is a portal to the Met’s comprehensive publishing program. Beginning with nearly 650 titles published from 1964 to the present, this resource will continue to expand and could eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals published by the Metropolitan Museum since the Met's founding in 1870. It will also include online publications.
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
the Distributed Proofreaders Image Source list used by Project Managers when creating a project. lists scanning projects and for each has a link to ebook, full text works in progress and produced from scanned images of public domain works