To better understand the Osher Library’s work, I spoke to Ian Fowler,
the facility’s director. Fowler told me about the advanced imaging technology
that the library uses, including a 60-megapixel camera used to capture
especially large maps, and a new 3-D camera that allows the library to
render globes. “The hardest part,” Fowler told me, “is getting a
100-percent accurate digital representation of the coloring. That
involves recalibrating our camera for each shot.” Accordingly, properly
digitizing a single map can take half a day or more. So far, it has
scanned somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 percent of its flat maps and
10 percent of the atlases in its collection.
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