Comments on: A Real Page Turner http://blog.zincroe.com/2008/04/a-real-page-turner/ Ramblings from the team at zinc Roe Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Luke http://blog.zincroe.com/2008/04/a-real-page-turner/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Luke Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:19:36 +0000 http://blog.zincroe.com/?p=3#comment-14 I took a quick look through DjVu, and it says the file format is open. AS3 has low-level access to binary data (thought the ByteArray class), so we could (in theory) write a decoder in AS3 to load and parse the files directly. I took a quick look through DjVu, and it says the file format is open. AS3 has low-level access to binary data (thought the ByteArray class), so we could (in theory) write a decoder in AS3 to load and parse the files directly.

]]> By: Davin http://blog.zincroe.com/2008/04/a-real-page-turner/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Davin Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:28:13 +0000 http://blog.zincroe.com/?p=3#comment-13 I'll just keep commenting on my own post... Wired Magazine <a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_internet_archive" rel="nofollow">took a look</a> at the Internet Archive's custom Scribe scanning stations. There's also a <a href="http://redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/2006/02/10/more-details-on-open-archives-scribe-book-scanner-project/" rel="nofollow">2006 post from Jared Benedict</a> that talks in a bit more detail about the "scanning" set-up. The Scribe (to which, it seems, the Atiz systems owe some of their design) are essentially dual-camera copy stands using fairly high-end digital SLR camera equipment. I've also been wondering, in terms of our own goals of building an archival document builder/viewer, whether it makes sense to try and work with an existing document collection format like <a href="http://djvu.org/" rel="nofollow">DjVu</a> or whether that would add a lot more overhead? Because we are intending to work with Flash, there would need to be some server processing layer to pull images out of the DjVu archive on the fly so it might make more sense just to store the images in a ZIP archive. I know not of these things so I am just theorizing. I’ll just keep commenting on my own post…
Wired Magazine took a look at the Internet Archive’s custom Scribe scanning stations. There’s also a 2006 post from Jared Benedict that talks in a bit more detail about the “scanning” set-up. The Scribe (to which, it seems, the Atiz systems owe some of their design) are essentially dual-camera copy stands using fairly high-end digital SLR camera equipment.

I’ve also been wondering, in terms of our own goals of building an archival document builder/viewer, whether it makes sense to try and work with an existing document collection format like DjVu or whether that would add a lot more overhead? Because we are intending to work with Flash, there would need to be some server processing layer to pull images out of the DjVu archive on the fly so it might make more sense just to store the images in a ZIP archive. I know not of these things so I am just theorizing.

]]> By: Davin http://blog.zincroe.com/2008/04/a-real-page-turner/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Davin Thu, 29 May 2008 18:34:45 +0000 http://blog.zincroe.com/?p=3#comment-12 I'm also wondering how institutions are scanning books for archives and more active public display? The <a href="http://booksnap.atiz.com/" rel="nofollow">BookSnap</a> system by Atiz seems like a great option but it's also not a small investment for smaller libraries and museums. A lot of what I've seen as far as raw digitized material has been from flatbed scanners or from a digital photo copy stand. The quality has been mixed and gutter shadows and colour balance across spreads are the biggest issues. I’m also wondering how institutions are scanning books for archives and more active public display? The BookSnap system by Atiz seems like a great option but it’s also not a small investment for smaller libraries and museums.

A lot of what I’ve seen as far as raw digitized material has been from flatbed scanners or from a digital photo copy stand. The quality has been mixed and gutter shadows and colour balance across spreads are the biggest issues.

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