Editing Digital Archivists 2013-04-21


first meeting notes 
===[[Digital Archivists]] group meeting notes 4/21/2013===

9 people in attendence, Danny moderating
introductions,
danny discusses the impetus for calling the first meeting, 

in attendance: [[User:Myxomop|danny N]], dany Q, felipe, john, curtis, andrew, [[User:miloh|miloh]], [[User:almccon|alan]], kristina

===Reetz Scanner (RS)===

We took a look at RS via online videos... 

Quick overview video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4-qMc2QSOw]

More detailed video: [https://vimeo.com/29184137]


Some details about RS:

Max scanning rate is 1,000 pages per hour.

It can accommodate heavy books easily up to 12 x 9 inches and 3 inches depth.

It cannot accommodate large format scanning.

Reetz offered the DIY bookscanner kit for under $500 (discounted price for Noisebridge)


Some additional components are necessary including:

cameras

glass

probably the lighting (need to check on this)


TO DOs:

Need to research which items should be purchased and how much it will cost.

Need to figure out who will assemble hardware.

Need to develop user guidelines and protocols.

Need to reserve a member shelf to provide a physical space for the scanner. 


TIMELINE:

Danny already contacted Reetz to order the scanner.

Next makerfaire is the weekend of May 18 and 19, which would be a good time to present or work on assembly (depending).

===Prism Scanner (PS)===

We then looked at Dany Qs [http://prismscanner.org/ Prism Scanner] 


Some details about PS:

The prism scanner costs more and has a larger failure rate than the RS (~25%).

It also has a larger footprint (~4-5 feet) than the RS.

It may offer a good direction for longer-term investment. 


Some questions to consider for future development:

What's the scope of the scanning problem?

How many hours work would it take for all possible books to be scanned by attendant scanners?

How to prevent failure rate/damage to potentially valuable books?

===Content & Licensing===

danny discussed the lack of availability of valuable rare books. 
 
''Mushrooms, Russia and History'' (1957) is one example and [http://www.newalexandria.org/archive/ New Alexandria] has made the book available digitally.

danny suggests scanning for users according to their own purposes (archival and reference) and to keep discussion of licensing issues in order to find ways to successfully get the content released.

kristina suggested looking at other precedents of online file sharing including the [http://archive.org/details/prelinger_library Prelinger Library] and [http://openlibrary.org/ Open Library] where publications can be scanned for online sharing.

felipe discussed a project he was involved in called Sabotage in which academic texts were made available in Brazil. 


TO DOS:
public domain is discussed, copyright, usage guidelines, 

documentation to accompany the scanner is discussed -- where to upload information and what kind of licensing issues exits.

===references: ===

references..
aaaaarg.org


===conclusions: ===

committed to purchase the last of the diybookscanners from d. reetz, and work to get the remaining parts and get it built for use asap. We're also interested in building other models of scanners with different levels of automation and capability.