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- No consumer grade end-to-end solution for digitization
- originals are valuable.
o owners not willing to let the objects out of their property.
o State-run collections (like archaeological artifacts) are locked up - portable station is important to solve this problem of security.
- How to recruit and train scanners and somehow generate well-structured PDFs
o Ease of use important to getting volunteers up and running quickly with little overhead. - Send out transcription to other sites (does this mean scanning of actual books? -JH)
- then put it into the decapod workflow for processing.
Functionality
Summary of Main operations
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"transfer" ink from one side imprints on opposite
"bleedthrough"
- physical bleedthrough (ink bleed through page)
- opposite bleedthrough (back page optically bleeds through)
Metric: Confidence?
- Is it text but not recognized? Push it onto workflow
- Is it text but not english? What do you do?
Future Meetings / Tasks:
John Burns to Toronto - June 8?
- talk about some wireframes, use cases
JB anticipates two Pilots:
1 - user testing on UI early.
2 - prototype into hands of early adopters.
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Dina Markham - national archives.
- can't let out artifacts from facility.
- Public accessible digital replicas and portable digitization station more convenient for getting people to see collections.
John B Howard http://www.educause.edu/Community/MemDir/Profiles/JohnBHoward/44694
Dave Simski?
- HP had a massive OCR project
- Dave Simksky - developed a way to manually zone regions / marking up zones
Software
- ATIC / atise? / ATICE?- ocr? (not sure of the name)
- Plastic Logics