Tinho,
Just a few thoughts on this.
You haven't said whether you are intending to provide access via the web to the scanned images, but this would seem to me to be a desirable outcome?
Often in the past when libraries have been approached by companies wanting to scan their maps, there seems to have been an assumption or agreement that the only access to the images would be via the companies' own products, whatever these are. This need not be the case, provided the company can still sell a product and the library can still provide access. As you say, I think in your case that its important that Liverpool University retains IPR over the images, and is allowed whatever use you would like to make of them in the future, even if it may have to be limited in some way in order to allow Digital Archives to make a return on their investment. I realise that in some cases, external funding of scanning may be an end in itself for income generation, and libraries may decide to delegate all future access to the outputs through commercial channels, but this is less good for the man on the street, and I think the income generated may not be large in the long-term.
I think its good too to consider the whole workflow from recording of sheet metadata, handling, scanning, and then the outputs in the form of web-based access, zoomable images, georeferencing, etc. Usually, external companies may only want to fund one part of the process, such as the scanning, but the related processes would ideally all take place for a better outcome.
Whilst the appropriate resolution is debatable, I'd suggest 400 dpi at an absolute minimum, and 600 dpi if you can. The One-Inch is finely engraved, and although at 600 dpi your images will be larger, they would have a much longer-term value.
I don't know too whether you can use Roger Hellyer's provisional carto-bibliography of the One-Inch at http://www.charlesclosesociety.org/files/OldSeriesCarto.pdf to help with metadata? Roger kindly allowed NLS to use a fuller Word version of this for our recent scanning of the One-Inch Revised New Series, that saved us time. This may also help with access to the maps in the future, and understanding of particular states, etc. CCS have very kindly made available sheet lines for the One-Inch too at: http://www.charlesclosesociety.org/KMLFILE that could be useful for online access.
If helpful, I'd be very happy to chat further on these things or share info on our map digitisation in NLS.
Chris
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If this is the 'Liverpool' set of the Old Series to which I was introduced by the late J.B. Harley, then it is a 'good 'un' and well worth someone's scanning it! But provision of some sort of introductory note might be a condition of use.
Richard Oliver
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Tinho,
The Digital Archives Association produce good quality scans of useful maps at a reasonable price. I doubt that there is any commercial profit involved.
My only comment is that their CDs have no introduction or descriptive text and the user has to make his own judgement about the history and context of the contents. This will be a particular problem with the one-inch Old Series maps where there are many later states with the publication date unchanged.
Richard Dean
On 08/04/2014 17:49, Da Cruz, Tinho wrote:
Dear friends,
I've been approached by a Warrington-based company who'd like to scan our first edition Ordnance Survey one-inch maps. The company is the Digital Archives Association and describes itself as 'a small group of amateurs producing high resolution images of historical maps on CD and DVD.'
This is their website: http://digitalarchives.co.uk/ They sell to local history and genealogy enthusiasts.
I thought I'd ask this group's advice regarding digitisation projects from outside commercial companies. Being new to this sort of thing I'm minded to tread carefully.
What would we get out of it? A digital copy of our maps. The knowledge that we've helped make some old maps more accessible.
Concerns: care of the maps as they are taken away to scan. Copyright of the images made.
Any comments or thoughts?
Best wishes
Tinho
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