In article <[log in to unmask]>, James
Cummings <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Dan O'Donnell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-13-06 at 09:55 +0100, Juan Garces wrote:
>>
>>> Starting with small archives could be a good way to start...
>>>
>>> One set of arguments is usually overseen by archival institutions: making
>>> lower quality images available hightens the demand for higher quality images
>>> of the same ms, images of other mss, and autopsies of the ms. While the
>>> latter might not be desired that much, I think the the first two arguments
>>> can be convincingly made. It would be good for libraries, even if (or
>>> particularly if) they use income generated from the imaging department for
>>> further imaging and conservation.
>>
>> I very much like this idea and with Google Books, book imaging is
>> certainly in the air at the moment. However, my experience is that MS
>> libraries are very conservative about this kind of thing, and they might
>> be happier if there were some kind of formal initiative rather than a
>> bunch of scholars with cell phones.
>>
>> Not quite sure how to develop this but it seems like an excellent idea.
>
>Strangely enough, Classicists are not the only people to be thinking along this
>line. As Juan certainly knows there is interest in this by a large number of
>medievalists, having seen the success of EEBO. Hence the recent AHRC ICT
>Methods Network workshop on
>"Large Scale Manuscript Digitization" See
>http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/textual_scholarship.html recently
>organized by Peter Robinson.
>
>I look forward to the report from that meeting.
I wish that I had known about that one. I'd have gone to it!
All the best,
Roger Pearse
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