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Written by Brewster Kahle on 2024-12-21 at 18:21

Digitization as public performance-- visit the Vancouver Public Library's prominent book scanner!

"Bringing Vancouver’s Past to the Present: Digitizing Rare Collections with Vancouver Public Library and Internet Archive Canada". https://internetarchivecanada.org/2024/12/18/bringing-vancouvers-past-to-the-present-digitizing-rare-collections-with-vancouver-public-library-and-internet-archive-canada/

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Written by Brewster Kahle on 2024-12-21 at 19:59

I hope we can make digitization into something like a maker space in libraries-- you can bring things over and walk away with a URL or a thumbdrive.

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Written by merlin / alex glow on 2024-12-21 at 21:03

@brewsterkahle Hell yeah!

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Written by John Honniball on 2024-12-21 at 21:51

@brewsterkahle You can do that with film negatives at many supermarkets (here in the UK, at least). Probably also true for paper documents at libraries

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Written by Steven Sandoval on 2024-12-22 at 00:14

@brewsterkahle Yes, please. I ended up making my own setup for capturing family photos from the 1960s/1980s that were stuck on slides. I'm lucky since I happened to already own the most expensive equipment and had enough excess cash to buy the required macro lens.

Most families probably end up just tossing their collections or letting them get lost in fires or floods.

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Written by Steven Sandoval on 2024-12-22 at 00:26

@brewsterkahle Scanning mom's #LDS Relief Society recipes was fun too, although probably fraught with copyright issues. #Mendon #Utah #recipes

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Written by Brewster Kahle on 2024-12-22 at 07:23

@baltakatei recipies are one of those things that do not have copyright problems (as I understand it).

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Written by Steven Sandoval on 2024-12-22 at 07:36

@brewsterkahle Thatʼs good to know, although I don't think the same applies to the 292-page cookbook the recipes were compiled into. I almost uploaded it to archive.org, but didn't want to give it more legal burden since I couldn't figure out the copyright status and couldn't say I had the rights to do so. I'll make a note to whomever inherits my scans to give it another try in 2075.

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