Digital Archivists 2014-05-22
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ATTENDEES
- John
- Dany
- Andrew
- Vinay
- Brandon
- Michael
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
- Mechanical and software issues with DIY Scanner 1.0 and possible solutions
- Camera apertures
- Legal issues surrounding archiving and use of scanned books for research
- Contact with DPLA service hubs, and scanning on a massive scale
- Flaws in current popular commercial scanners (configuration and price point)
- Commercial vs. Open Source OCR
- OCR for non-English languages, particularly Hindi
- Updates on the linear book scanner, currently under development at U. of Michigan
- Brandon's EECS corpus analysis project at Berkeley
- Spitballing about next generation DIY scanner
DECISIONS
- Weekly meetings have resumed! Thursdays at 7pm at Noisebridge
- Andrew & Vinay run a live test comparing commercial and OSS OCR at the next meeting
- John & Andrew to meet up for several hours of scanning, documenting snags in the workflow
- Brandon to follow up with team at Berkeley on corpus analysis project
- John to bring Raspberry Pi to test as dedicated scanning terminal
- We're back in action!