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Emily Chicorli
How We Digitize: Contex Scanner
How do large maps get scanned? How do materials larger than average size get digitized? While we may use our TTI device (more about it coming soon in a new post!) we often use our Contex HD5450 scanner that can handle large format materials up to 54″ wide and of unlimited length. Not only does […]
Coming Soon: Materials from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
Back in 2012 we digitized materials from the David Conde Fonds. We are currently working with UBC Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) to make materials from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) available up on UBC RBSC’s Access to Memory (AtoM) database once they are uploaded through archivematica and descriptions are finalized. David […]
Explore Open Collections: BC Sessional Papers
Project update: Early next year, the Digitization Centre will make the second phase of the BC Sessional papers digitization project from years 1887 to 1911 available online for all to access. What are sessional papers? Sessional papers contain materials that document the political, historical, economic and cultural history of British Columbia. The sessional papers include […]
Updating collections for higher quality images
One of the projects the Digitization Centre is embarking on includes rescanning photographs in the Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection and the MacMillan Bloedel Limited fonds. The goal is to provide users with high quality images and update the metadata to meet new standards. The Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection documents the experiences of Canadians of Japanese […]
Remembering with Photographs
On Tuesday November 11th, 2014, British Columbia will be celebrating Remembrance Day along with the rest of Canada and Commonwealth countries to remember the men and women of the armed forces who died in the line of duty. Remembrance Day (Veteran’s Day in the United States) is a memorial day created in 1919 to remember the […]
How We Digitize: Multipage Scanners
Another machine that we use on a regular basis here at the Digitization Centre are our Fujitsu fi-6670A multipage scanners. The Fujitsu scanners are high-speed, sheet-fed machines that can scan up to 90 pages per minute on both sides, which is approximately 180 images per minute. These multipage scanners can handle a range of material […]
Costume Ideas Inspired by Our Digital Collections
Still trying to decide on your epic Halloween costume? Then look no further! The Digitization Centres’ photographic collections have a plethora of images that can provide inspiration for costume ideas. Whether your budget is thrift-store-chic, you have some cash to spend, or, you are looking for costume ideas that you can base off your current […]
Introducing the One Hundred Poets Project
In an earlier post in our How We Digitize series, I spoke with UBC Library conservator, Anne Lama, about her role here at UBC and at the Digitization Centre. Anne was here again a couple of weeks ago to work with students and the project leader of the One Hundred Poets project to determine what […]
Puban Project Complete and Online!
The Puban project in collaboration with Sun Yat-Sen Library, part of the Guangzhou library in Guangdong Province in China, is complete. There are 29 digitized titles each with multiple fascicles. The scanning process primarily involved the use of our ATIZ scanners (a How We Digitize blog post about these scanners is coming soon!). The core […]
New album featuring photographs from Carlo Gentile
Another album from the Uno Langmann BC Historical Photograph collection has been uploaded onto our Digital Collections web page! Thirty-six of the photographs in this album were taken by Carlo Gentile (1835-1893), an Italian photographer who immigrated to North America. In 1863 he traveled through the wilds of British Columbia where he photographed Pacific Coast Indians […]
