New Video: The Smithsonian’s Conveyor-Belt Driven Imaging System
New video online today from the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office.
Blurb
Given its scale and diversity, the Smithsonian’s collection of 138 million items presents a unique digitization challenge. This video showcases a conveyor belt driven imaging system digitizing 270,000 items from the numismatics collections at the National Museum of American History in a matter of months.
See Also: Additional Background in, “Thousands of Items in Only Hours: New Article Reports on the Smithsonian’s “Rapid Capture” Digitization Process” (Jan. 15, 2015)
This post also includes a video.
Filed under: Digital Preservation, News, Reports
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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