Category Archives: General Interest

One of the most exciting and innovative groups in preservation and imaging today, Factum Arte (http://www.factum-arte.com/en/inicio), has worked with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on an upcoming exhibit of treasured manuscripts. As part of the project, it was necessary to design … Continue reading →

“For the first time, you can peek inside the craft that enabled “one giant leap for mankind” FYI: The model is build from “3D data from 6 different sensors into one 3D model. 400GB+ of data compressed into a model … Continue reading →

Photographing “Little Dancer” Lee Ewing, National Gallery of Art photographer, explores the challenges of photographing Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. The only sculpture that Degas exhibited during his lifetime,Little Dancer is one of the Gallery’s most important works. So fragile … Continue reading →

Thank you, Todd!

Features Converts between different document formats that OpenOffice understands OpenOffice can export to about 100 different document formats Can be used for batch processing Combines with asciidoc and docbook2odf/xhtml2odt to create PDF or Word (.doc) files Can apply custom style … Continue reading →

Harvard Library’s new page-turner accesses DRS-stored images, and technical metadata about the images, via the International Image Interoperability Framework API. Once you know the IIIF recipe, you can also use the API to quickly find information about images in DRS. [ I … Continue reading →

Is there a collection of historic stereoscopic images (not aerial) of the Harvard campus, at Harvard? I have found a few dozen examples in the Cambridge Historical Society, NYPL, and BPL collections, but not the trove that must exist. VIA, … Continue reading →

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius Photographers used to manipulate and stage their photographs to make them more acceptable as art, now they are told … Continue reading →