##Digitization
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archive.org
The calm pace of our livestreamed microfiche scanning may not show the scope of the work, so here’s a time-lapse revealing how many pages we can digitize in just one hour.

📡 Watch the real-time stream ⤵️
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

#Preservation #Digitization #InternetArchive
August 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
archive.org
Monday morning at the Internet Archive means one thing: the microfiche scanners are live! 📷️

Tune in to the scanning #livestream & start your week with some quiet, cool preservation (7:30 AM–midnight PT).

📡 www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

#Digitization #InternetArchive #LiveNow
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...
www.youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
kaisenso.bsky.social
Deltarune tomorrow ;3ccc

Looks like this tasque was taking up too much memory and needed a reset x3

01001101 01100101 01101111 01110111 00001010

#transformation #permaTF #digitization
June 23, 2026 at 9:31 PM
archive.org
5/5
Each digitized page captures a chain of civic decisions from creation to preservation to public access.

Together they form a long record of how California communities have grown and changed over time.

#digitization #opengov #california #localgovernment @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
“Table 2F: Analysis of County Government Expenditures,” Page 52 in Contra Costa County’s 1963–64 Annual Financial Report
May 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
archive.org
Learn more about the livestream & the creators behind it in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2025/05/21/n...

#digitization #preservation #DemocracysLibrary #govdocs
Screenshot of the microfiche digitization livestream, showing a digitized page on the left of the screen, and a split screen on the right showing a wide shot of a microfiche digitization station and a closeup on top.
May 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Sometimes, the devil is in the details. When scanning this book from 1531, something went wrong badly. Not one page is complete, only nonsense scans. This is #bookhistory too. A story of mistakes and #digitization gone wrong.
A wrongly scanned page from the book "Anzaygung grüntlicher || natürlicher vrsachen der natur..." (1531), nowadays in München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Res/4 Astr.p. 528,44. Another wrongly scanned page from the book "Anzaygung grüntlicher || natürlicher vrsachen der natur..." (1531), nowadays in München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Res/4 Astr.p. 528,44. And another wrongly scanned page from the book "Anzaygung grüntlicher || natürlicher vrsachen der natur..." (1531), nowadays in München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Res/4 Astr.p. 528,44. a screenshot of a couple of scanned pages, all not readable, from the book "Anzaygung grüntlicher || natürlicher vrsachen der natur..." (1531), nowadays in München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Res/4 Astr.p. 528,44.
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
bhgross144.bsky.social
Also, it's not like this is the first time a tech company sought to "disruptively scan all the world's books."

(Read Deanna Marcum & @rschon.bsky.social's Along Came #Google to see how that turned out: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...)

#BookHistory #libraries #digitization 🗃️📜
bhgross144.bsky.social Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · Jul 29
For those seeking another reason to oppose #Anthropic (or #AI more broadly):

"Anthropic described the project as 'our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books' in an internal memo, which noted 'we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project'."

#booksky #speccolls 🗃️📜📚
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
www.news.com.au
July 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
degruyterbrill.bsky.social
We're proud to announce that the #digitization of the Brill Book Archive is complete, making over 15,000 #books, many of them centuries old, available to researchers worldwide through their institutional libraries in a fully searchable online collection.

🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/publishing/a... 1/4
Purple visual reading: Brill Book Archive. Digitization complete, over 15,000 titles available online for the first time
August 31, 2026 at 12:44 PM
academicbullying.bsky.social
Kool et al. (2017) "investigated which technologies are expected to shape digital society in the coming years, and which social and ethical challenges they will bring." #Digitization #DigitalTransformation #uOttawa #RathenauInstituut

www.linkedin.com/pulse/digiti...
The digitization of society - perils, opportunities
This discussion on social digitization summarizes the important research report “Urgent upgrade: Protect public values in our digitized society” by Kool, Timmer, Royakkers, and van Est (2017) of the D...
www.linkedin.com
September 26, 2026 at 11:02 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Well, four hands on the scan, and one finger autocorrected by a repairing software. That's a ghostfinger and an unreadable text. What a nightmare example of #digitization, #bookhistory
Four fingers on a scan of an old book, and one finger autocorrected (ghosted) by a repairing software. Source: VD18 14595990. Link: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10323254?page=109
May 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
Next-generation specimen #digitization: capturing #reflectance spectra from the world's #herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa

#TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience
Herbarium spectral digitization workflow from specimen collection to global integration, and challenges.
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Honey, I squished the book. #BookHistory #Digitization
Screenshot of the digital copy of "Johann Hübnersm Rect. Gymn. Martisb. Kurtze Fragen aus der Politischen Historia, den Lehrenden und Lernenden zur Erleichterung aufgesetzet" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- H.un. 286-1, VD17 3:600003T) showing the small book being squished.
November 28, 2024 at 1:34 PM
carinr.bsky.social
I don't have much to say abt Bernard but I wanted to call out what a beautiful #digitization this is. You can clearly see the texture of the parchment, the dry-point ruling, how the scribe handles flaws in the skin, his ductus (what he actually did with his pen). Here are some closeups. #medievalsky
Detail of a manuscript page showing the texture of the parchment. Detail of a manuscript page showing ruled lines. Detail of a manuscript page showing vertical ruled lines and the scribe's handling of a flaw in the parchment.
January 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
e-colplus.bsky.social
Our website www.ecolplus.fr has a brand-new look ✨
Discover:

- the #digitization of French natural history #collections
- the equipment available
- our partner institutions
- a dedicated page for the latest news

👉 And it’s now available in English too!
e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes.
Projet e-COL+ Numérisation 3D des collections naturalistes a bénéficié d'une aide de l’État PIA3-ANR-21-ESRE-0053
www.ecolplus.fr
September 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
letterformarchive.org
We’re seeking someone to lead our digitization program: jobs.gusto.com/postings/let...

#Museums #Digitization #GLAM #GLAMJobs
Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive
jobs.gusto.com
June 1, 2026 at 8:58 PM
fabianmoss.bsky.social
The goal is to establish a research collaboration with
UniRIO UFRJ & Casa do #Choro. Stay tuned! #musicscience #digitalhumanities #music #digitization #GLAM fabian-moss.de/project/2024...
Digital Choro | Fabian C. Moss
The project
fabian-moss.de
March 31, 2024 at 3:18 PM
ancestordigger.bsky.social
Learning about Digitisation @ #Connections2025 #genealogy #FamilyHistory #digitisation #digitization #IANZ
Speaker at conference
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
emgeekay.bsky.social
FADGI Still Image 101 For Beginners webinar from the Library of Congress is available here:

#library #archives #digitization 📚

www.loc.gov/item/webcast...
FADGI 101
This webinar introduces the Federal Agency Digitization Guideline Initiative guidelines to beginners both in the field and support staff.
www.loc.gov
March 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
botsocamerica.bsky.social
PlantSAM: An object detection-driven segmentation pipeline for herbarium specimens

New in #AppsPlantSci by Youcef Sklab, Florian Castanet, Hanane Ariouat, et al.

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#botany #herbarium #deeplearning #digitization #SegmentAnything #objectdetection
The PlantSAM plant region detection and segmentation pipeline for herbarium images. Clockwise, starting at the top left: Each image is divided into patches, processed by YOLOv10 for plant region detection, and segmented by SAM. The segmented patches are then recombined to create a complete plant mask.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
digitalecon.org
🚨Call for Papers🚨

The next Digital Economy Workshop will take place in Berlin on March 23-25, 2025

It brings together researchers from economics, information systems, law, marketing, strategy, and related fields who study #digitization.

Paper submission & info: www.digitalecon.org/workshop/ber...
November 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM
megsmith.bsky.social
Don’t mind me, just sitting in my darkened office cutting and pasting index cards like a weirdo to see if my portable scanner can capture UV-fluorescing ink. (Sadly, it can’t very well.) Oh well, the digitization lab in Intro to DH will still be, ahem, lit!
#digitalhumanities #digitization
A laptop, portable scanner, and old diary sitting on a desk in a darkened office. Everything glows red because the index card covering the scanner lights is pink. Some lightly fluorescing ink on a blemished diary page. (The light is more neutral now because the index card over the scanner lights is now white.) A photo of the scanner software’s image of the page with the UV light. There’s a blue halo around a pink and purple center, but the fluorescing ink isn’t legible.
February 12, 2024 at 7:15 PM
coherentdigital.bsky.social
Excited to announce the launch of Latin American History & Culture, a resource that provides centralized access to centuries of Latin American and Latinx primary-source materials, previously scattered across the internet.

#LibraryCommunity #Digitization #Preservation #LatinAmericanStudies #Latinx
December 4, 2024 at 7:44 PM
mfnberlin.bsky.social
The number of objects in natural history collections poses challenges for #digitization, including those from colonial contexts. Katja Kaiser and Catarina Madruga developed a decision tree to identify objects of colonial provenance. 🌍

🔗 Learn more: doi.org/10.25360/01-...
📸 Pablo Castagnola
A tablet being used to digitize a skull from the museum's mammal collection
February 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
amarois.bsky.social
[DH] Hier belle surprise ds la matinale @franceculture.fr : évocation de la sortie de "Écrire l'histoire - Gestes et expériences à l'ère numérique" par C. Muller et F. Clavert (Armand Colin), découlant de gout-numerique.net => www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
#data #shs #histoire #DH #digitization
Le goût de l'archive à l'ère numérique | F. Clavert et C. Muller (dir.)
En 1989, Arlette Farge publie Le goût de l’archive. Elle y décrit ce que tout·e historien·ne a pu vivre en centre d’archives : une relation très intime à nos sources primaires - relation indirecte aux...
gout-numerique.net
October 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
infodocket.bsky.social
Vancouver Public Library Honoured for Innovative #Digitization Project with Internet Archive Canada internetarchivecanada.org/2025/11/12/v... #libraries #publiclibraries @internetarchiveca.bsky.social @archive.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM