High Volume Digitisation: Issues, Trends & Innovative Robot Tech (UK)

This free workshop focuses on high-volume digitisation of bound materials e.g. books, manuscripts, newspapers, magazines, registers and ephemera. This is a growing area of interest for technical and project managers, practitioners and researchers, and useful for anyone interested in what is also known as 'mass' or Large Scale Digitisation Initiatives (LSDIs). Bringing together experts, UK and European case studies, the latest technical developments and good practices, the day is intended to provide an outline awareness of what is involved in planning LSDIs for digital preservation or digital access. This includes LSDI feasibility, logistics, scaling, outsourcing, costing, risks, quality, metadata, OCR and FAQs. The day will include real-time demos of robotic-arm scanners with opportunities for two way dialogue and open questions. Location: The New Technology Institute, Birmingham, UK. 23 September 2009