No More Outsourcing: Digitization Now

No More Outsourcing: Digitization Now Check out this blog for some interesting information, especially about how to create digital books from PDF files ( posted 7/29/10)

ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards

ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

A very interesting ongoing discussion

CONVERTING TIFF TO PDF

For those looking to adopt the Acrobat file type pdf PDF as their Archival or Display file type Andrew Stawowczyk Long of the National Library of Australia has recently posted the following to Imaglib listserve.

"I wrote a free image to PDF batch converter. It's a simple application but does what's intended. Have a look at http://home.netspeed.com.au

Just a word of caution - I didn't have time to test it extensively but it seems to be working quite well."

Regards
Andrew Stawowczyk Long
Strategist
Digital Preservation Standards
National Library of Australia
anlong@nla.gov.aua

He graciously gave me permission to repost it here as he would welcome feedback, including any further development one might wish for.

The use of PDF as a preservation file type (Archival) is still abit controversial, but many including Archive.org and some of the LOC's efforts are using it. It is great for Text work.

Pre-Raphaelite websites

I have switched gears... I would rather spend my time exploring image websites than writing grants.

I was recently asked to research websites for Pre-Raphaelite paintings. The Birmingham Museum site is particularly rich, allowing viewers to create on-line studies based on the collections.

Here are some great resources for this topic:

MUSEUMS

Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery

http://www.preraphaelites.org/

2257 images, plus resource guides

Tate

http://www.tate.org.uk/

399 images

Victoria and Albert

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

246 images

Manchester Art Gallery

http://www.manchestergalleries.org/

9 works

National Museums Liverpool

Lady Lever Art Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Sudley House

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/pre-raphaelites/

17 works

Delaware Museum of Art

http://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/

78 images

RELATED RESOURCES

Pre-Raphaelite Society

http://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org

William Morris Society

http://www.morrissociety.org

Rossetti Archive

http://www.rossettiarchive.org

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood

Victorian web

http://www.victorianweb.org

Creative Commons 101

Recently I pointed out to a faculty member who wanted to post her digital images where others could have open access to them that there was something called the Creative Commons. Then yesterday I saw this link to an article on ALA TechSource, July 20, by Cindi Trainor. It is a very useful, concise overview of CC licensing. It appears that there is a new type of CC license called CC:Zero (CC:0), which differs from public domain. "Works created and declared to have a CC:Zero license may be used by anyone, in any way, and do not even require attribution of the creator."

This type of licensing, along with CC's other categories of licensing, is an attractive way for those with personal collections of digital images to dissiminate them according to their wants and wims. This site offers a useful way to tell those with whom we are consulting about image licensing in general.

http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2010/07/take-pictures-tell-stories-creative-commons-and-you.html