The UBC Library Digitization Centre: Our Equipment and Its Uses
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Our Equipment And Its Uses
Robert Stibravy, Digital Projects Librarian
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Photographic workstation, used primarily for large, flat items up to 40”x60”
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Shot as two page spread then split in post-processing
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The vacuum is used to flatten the item to help eliminate focus and shadowing issues
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Wide format scanner – up to 54” (and as long as the file size will allow)
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Why not the TTI? Avoid any possible aberrations in GIS use
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Very good for fragile materials
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Used for fragile, bound textual materials
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Pages are shot in sequence
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A bound serial
There needs to be an adequate gutter
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Large format flatbed scanner
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The flatbed does an excellent job due to its design
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Standard size flatbed scanner
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The flatbed delivers high fidelity
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Microform digitization
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Microfilm The image quality will
depend on the film quality
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The scanner can accept various sizes of fiche
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High speed document scanner
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“Standard” textual
documents The Fujitsu scans 90
pages/minute duplex
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Laboratory notebooks
Even with good quality the metadata will need
to be transcribed
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The “old school” are often in dire need of digitization
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Digitized as a WAV file with derivatives made as needed
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This one is a U-matic
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This one is from the “Westland” project
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This model can interface via USB or RCA connector
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The original is encoded as an uncompressed WAV and derivatives made as needed
Dr. Sidney H Zbarsky (1920-2002)
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Some sites to enjoy: � UBC Library Digital Collections
• http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/ � British Columbia Bibliography
• http://bcbib.library.ubc.ca/ � British Columbia Historical Newspapers
• http://historicalnewspapers.library.ubc.ca/