[Digitalarchivists] Noisebridge DIY Book Scanner
Jude Coelho
judec at archive.org
Tue Jul 23 23:28:19 UTC 2013
Hey Danny,
I will, but as of now, he is still not online. I'll let you know as soon
as I speak to him.
Jude Coelho
Process Manager
Internet Archive
On 7/23/13 4:02 PM, newmy51 at gmail.com wrote:
> Jude,
>
> There's a chance I'll be out of town during those dates. Let me know
> what Robert says if/when you can get a hold of him and let's go from
> there.
>
> -Danny
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Jude Coelho <judec at archive.org
> <mailto:judec at archive.org>> wrote:
>
> Hey Danny,
>
> I'm hoping to talk to Robert within the next hour or so (it is
> about 6AM in Shenzhen), but since he's not here, I think it would
> be most convenient to reschedule for when Robert is back in town.
> How about any time during the week of August 12-16 or 19-23?
>
> Jude Coelho
> Process Manager
> Internet Archive
>
> On 7/23/13 2:06 PM, newmy51 at gmail.com <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Jude,
>>
>> Haven't heard back from you yet. Are we on for tomorrow, or
>> should we reschedule for when Robert's back in town?
>>
>> -Danny
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 10:49 PM, newmy51 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com> <newmy51 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> DA List et al.,
>>
>> I propose we plan for the late morning/early afternoon of
>> Wednesday the 24th or anytime shortly thereafter. That way,
>> John will be back in town to participate.
>>
>> Reply to confirm.
>>
>> -Danny
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Christopher Whipple
>> <crwbot at gmail.com <mailto:crwbot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm unavailable Wednesday evenings and this coming Monday
>> evening, the 15th. Other than that, my schedule is fairly
>> flexible given some fair warning.
>>
>> -c
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:38 PM, John Shutt
>> <john.d.shutt at gmail.com <mailto:john.d.shutt at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> My return flight is the night of July 23rd, so any
>> date after that would work for me.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM, newmy51 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com> <newmy51 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Jude et al.,
>>
>> I'm back in town, moved, mostly recovered from
>> whatever latest plague is going around, and ready
>> to meet. However, we have two core group members
>> currently out of town, both of whom should be
>> back by the end of the month, if not sooner
>> (hopefully sooner). I, too, may be leaving town
>> for a spell sometime in late July/early August.
>> That said:
>>
>> 1. John and Felipe: when are your precise return
>> dates and earliest possible days you'd be
>> available to travel to IA and/or Richmond?
>>
>> 2. Jude: what days/times work for you?
>>
>> 3. Chris Whipple: when would your car be
>> available for such a trip?
>>
>> Awaiting your replies,
>>
>> -Danny
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:38 PM, John Shutt
>> <john.d.shutt at gmail.com
>> <mailto:john.d.shutt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> That's great news about the PC, Jude! I would
>> be up for travelling to Richmond to meet and
>> help set things up, on whatever date works
>> for everyone else.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:20 AM,
>> newmy51 at gmail.com <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com>
>> <newmy51 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Jude, Daniel & Noisebridge DA-List,
>>
>> I'm still out of state, but finally at a
>> computer fit for writing emails which my
>> limited patience for dinky touchscreens
>> will not permit.
>>
>> Those software tweaks sound like an
>> excellent fit for our purposes, and
>> perhaps kit scanners worldwide, as
>> internet connectivity is not necessarily
>> a guarantee in all scanning
>> circumstances. It's also nice to know
>> that one or more components of the
>> archive.org <http://archive.org>
>> hardware/software suite are retoolable at
>> all. Can that be taken to mean that
>> these things are entirely open source?
>> If so, is there publicly available
>> documentation detailing this equipment
>> and the software behind it? One of the
>> end goals of Noisebridge's book scanning
>> endeavors is, loosely put, to develop
>> hardware, software and operation
>> standards to which all other hackerspaces
>> and their scanners can adhere. From
>> conversations so far with both Daniel and
>> IA people, that appears to be a shared goal.
>>
>> I can't personally make a trip to
>> Richmond until at least a few days after
>> I get back (20th), as I'll be moving my
>> life out of one San Francisco hobble and
>> into another. We do have several folks
>> in our ranks who have expressed a
>> willingness to travel, whether to the
>> Archive, Ace Monster Toys, etc. I'll
>> leave it to them to speak up if that's a
>> trip one or more are willing/able to
>> make. Purely out of self interest, I
>> propose that meeting take place closer to
>> the end of this month or the beginning of
>> next, so as to remain as personally
>> involved as possible.
>>
>> We haven't settled on a Powershot model
>> as of yet. That search was ongoing until
>> news came of being loaned Canon DSLRs
>> from the Books dept. at IA. I assume our
>> "beta testing" will benefit from the use
>> of more than one camera model. Seems
>> like we ought to seek out Powershots just
>> to have on hand. Do you, Jude, or other
>> Books people have any insights into the
>> merits of one model or another? I've
>> done my own exploring/conversating in
>> this DIYBookScanner thread
>> <http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2569>
>> but there does not seem to be a consensus
>> on a single gold standard so far.
>>
>> With all the developments as of late, we
>> (the Noisebridge Digital Archivists
>> group) are definitely due for another
>> general meeting. That will likely be the
>> first order of business upon my return to
>> SF, post-move. I'll send out another
>> dispatch once the date's been set. I
>> extend to you, Jude, the same invitation
>> I have to Daniel, which is to Skype into
>> that meeting and/or simply subscribe to
>> the DA mailing list
>> <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Digital_Archivists> if
>> you'd like to stay extra-current with our
>> goings on.
>>
>> With great anticipation,
>>
>> -Danny N.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Jude
>> Coelho <judec at archive.org
>> <mailto:judec at archive.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Danny,
>>
>> I wanted to give you an update on
>> where things stand. I ordered a PC
>> (the same model we use on our
>> scribes) and it should be here before
>> the end of the week. I plan to put
>> our software on there and then set a
>> few switches in the software that are
>> designed to allow our scribes to
>> function in the event of a network
>> outage. This will allow the software
>> to work without a connection to
>> archive.org <http://archive.org>'s
>> database. I don't believe that should
>> take more than a day, so I think, if
>> it's good for you, we can probably
>> meet up some time later next week or
>> early the following week and so I can
>> give you the PC, the cameras, and
>> some training in using our software.
>> I'm also excited to check out the
>> scanner.
>>
>> After that, I think you're definitely
>> going to want to make some
>> modifications to the software, and
>> I'd be glad to help or advise with
>> that in any way I can. We can discuss
>> it in more detail, but to briefly
>> summarize our process, our software
>> is designed to produce a tarball of
>> images along with an xml file
>> containing metadata about cropping,
>> deskewing, and rotation of the images
>> (and some structural metadata about
>> page numbers and page types
>> optionally captured during image
>> capture). This metadata is used on
>> our servers, once a book is uploaded,
>> to perform those actions on the raw
>> images, producing the final formats
>> that you see on archive.org
>> <http://archive.org>. While you're of
>> course welcome to upload anything you
>> scan to archive.org
>> <http://archive.org>, wait for it to
>> process, and then download it, I
>> assume you'd also like to be able to
>> produce finished scans independent of
>> our servers (and we would like to see
>> that happen as well).
>>
>> Would you be able to meet at our
>> Physical Archive in Richmond? That's
>> where the cameras are, and also where
>> my colleague Sean is based. He will
>> have some ideas for mounting the cameras.
>>
>> I'm also very interested in seeing
>> how the software works with the Canon
>> Powershots you guys have. Do you have
>> the model number of those, by the
>> way? I would like to look at the
>> specs online.
>>
>> I'll email you again as soon as the
>> PC arrives so we can set a date. Are
>> you still out of town? If so, is
>> there someone else I should email
>> about this?
>>
>> Thanks, and I look forward to working
>> together.
>>
>> -Jude
>>
>> Jude Coelho
>> Process Manager
>> Internet Archive
>>
>> On 5/28/13 10:55 AM, Jude Coelho wrote:
>>> Hi Danny,
>>>
>>> After you left on Friday, I heard
>>> back on an email I had sent to
>>> Daniel Reetz a week earlier, and he
>>> suggested we contact Noisebridge and
>>> look into working together since you
>>> had one of the kits. Synchronicity!
>>>
>>> Let me see what Robert has to say
>>> about the time frame and I'll get
>>> back to you asap. His email is CCed
>>> here btw.
>>> Jude Coelho
>>> Process Manager
>>> Internet Archive
>>> On 5/24/13 6:17 PM,
>>> newmy51 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:newmy51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Jude,
>>>>
>>>> I write you now from Noisebridge,
>>>> just beneath the shelf currently
>>>> home to the mostly-assembled Reetz
>>>> kit scanner. An update has gone
>>>> out to the Digital Archivists
>>>> mailing list
>>>> (https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Digital_Archivists)
>>>> with a recap of our attendance
>>>> today at IA and the accompanying
>>>> discussions with yourself, Robert
>>>> and Jason Scott. Though I will
>>>> almost certainly be out of town for
>>>> the occasion, we'd like to put
>>>> together a time when the kit can be
>>>> brought to IA and outfitted with
>>>> the necessary equipment and/or
>>>> software to begin the "beta
>>>> testing" we discussed this
>>>> afternoon. The only way I could
>>>> personally participate in that
>>>> meeting would be if it took place
>>>> this coming Tuesday, which I
>>>> realize may be too short of notice.
>>>> Either way, get back to me when
>>>> you can with what works for you and
>>>> we'll plan accordingly. And of
>>>> course, thank you, again, for your
>>>> advice, generosity, and interest in
>>>> our project and its progress. We
>>>> look forward to working with you.
>>>>
>>>> Very Best.
>>>>
>>>> -Danny N.
>>>>
>>>> PS: Please forward this onto
>>>> Robert as well (I don't have his
>>>> email address).
>>>>
>>
>>
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