The primary
focus of the Digital Production Unit over the past few months has been to
incorporate the new reprographic system into our workflows. Since we started
using the new equipment in January we have been able to take advantage of its
speed and high quality imaging in a number of projects.
We have
redesigned our workflow for the Dartmouth College Photographic Files collection
to use the new camera exclusively. The previous workflow for this ongoing
project used two scanners on two computers and required additional post
production work to gather all of the images together. Our new workflow
consolidates all of that work onto one workstation. The streamlined workflow
has created noticeable positive effects in the time it takes to complete work
on this project.
Dartmouth
College Photographic Files collection: (http://libarchive.dartmouth.edu/cdm/search/collection/photofiles/collection)
One of the
first projects we tackled with the new equipment was to shoot recent Winter
Carnival Posters. This was a great learning opportunity for us. The posters are
large and colorful and gave us a chance to develop our skills with the hardware
and software. We will add individual new posters as they become available in future
Winter terms. In addition, we are in the planning stages of a project to
reshoot all of the posters to upgrade the quality of our master images.
Dartmouth
Winter Carnival Posters:(http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/collections/other/WinterCarnivalPosters.html)
We have also
been able to use the equipment in support of smaller projects in Rauner Special
Collections and for exhibits by Education and Outreach. Other work with the
camera includes one-offs for various projects, quality assurance and
corrections.
In other
news, we continue to redesign our work area. We recently moved all of the
scanning equipment into room 2D, turning that space into our scanning lab.
By Willliam B. Ghezzi
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