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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:00:40 -0500
From: Marcel Fortin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Digital photography of atlas pages
Sender: Marcel Fortin <[log in to unmask]>
The University of Toronto preservation division bought a great digital
camera a couple of years ago. The Toronto Public Library also bought the
exact same camera. See the TPL's Historicity pages where they've loaded
maps and fire insurance plans from the scans they've done with it:
http://historicity.tpl.toronto.on.ca:9000/
Specs of the camera can be found at:
http://www.academicimaging.com/tech/diginput/cameras/jenoptik/eyelike.html
I believe McGill bought a very similar one and created that great county
atlas web page with it. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/
The results have been incredible for us at the map library. They have
made life much easier by allowing for scans/shots of entire maps. The
quality of the shots is really good and there is very little possible
damage that can occur while taking snaps of the items (maps or atlases,
and of basically any size).
A few projects would not have been possible without it including a great
new site on the papers, photos and maps of JB Tyrrell:
http://digital.library.utoronto.ca/Tyrrell/ We also started a small
digital map project at http://www.library.utoronto.ca/maplib/gta using
shots from the camera.
Of course these cameras are extremely expensive but I don't think you
can reproduce the results otherwise. Inferior /cheaper cameras might do
the trick for sections of a map but then you would have to stitch the
sections together. This used to be quite a difficult task but there's
great software out there now that will aid considerably without you
losing your eyesight. See www.panavue.com
Marcel Fortin
GIS/Map Librarian
University of Toronto
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Frances Woodward wrote:
>
> Hi, James,
> I see that the Saskatoon City Archives has taken the images off their web
> site (except for one example) because of the copyright claim.
> http://www.city.saskatoon.sk.ca/org/clerks_office/archives/ar-fire.asp
> Cheers,
> Fran
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, James Boxall wrote:
>
> > i think i recall a session at the ACMLA meeting in Saskatoon where the
> > archivist for Saskatoon showed how they used a digital camera for fire
> > insurance plans...the quality look exceptional.....of course cost is a
> > factor...
> >
> > also...the ICA meeting in 1999 had the folks from National Archives (Dave
> > Brown?) doing some camera work of the maps in the exhibit....
> >
> > we haven't done anything....but..if scanning is not an option (and then
> > migrating to something like MrSid...then i would "expect" a digital camera
> > function of some sort is the best option?
> > :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > James Boxall
> > Curator/Head
> > Map and Geospatial Information Collection
> > Killam Library
> > Dalhousie University
> > Halifax, Nova Scotia
> > Canada B3H 4H8
> > 902-494-3757 (tel)
> > 902-494-2062 (fax)
> > [log in to unmask]
> > magic.library.dal.ca
> >
> > Immediate Past-President, Association of Canadian
> > Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) www.acmla.org
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Folks
> > >
> > > I'm looking for some advice or expertise regarding dealing with requests for
> > > prints from pages of rare and oversize atlases. Usually these are for
> > > working copies - photocopies or scans as opposed to publication quality
> > > reproductions.
> > >
> > > Needless to say, many of our atlases can not be subjected to the trauma of
> > > inversion on a photocopy machine and the intense light.
> > >
> > > Also, we have neither adequate staff nor facilities to do, or arrange for,
> > > high quality reproduction for these requests. Thus we are looking for a
> > > process which would allow us to produce an image or file that we could give
> > > (at reasonable cost) to the client with out it requiring much staff time on
> > > our part.
> > >
> > > I am interested in how other map collections handle similar requests. I am
> > > considering the potential of digital photography - 5 megapixel cameras are
> > > reasonably priced (or at least with the range of possibility ) .
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone any experience of suggestions they could share with me.
> > >
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
> > > David L. Jones, Map Librarian
> > > William C. Wonders Map Collection
> > > Science & Technology Library
> > > 1-26 Cameron Library
> > > University of Alberta
> > > Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2J8
> > > voice (780)492-3433 fax (780)492-2721
> > > e-mail [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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> Special Collections, Main Library,
> University of British Columbia, 1956 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
> Tel: (604) 822-2819 Fax: (604) 822-9587
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