DIGLIB: SOME CHARACTERISTICS
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NO WATERMARKS
Watermarks in Imago database
Trade-mark in the Book exhibition Librit
Trade-mark in Ulisse Aldrovandi's herbal
IMAGES:
VIEWPOINT: CAMERA ANGLE
DO NOT FORGET TO PHOTOGRAPH THE BINDING
PHOTOGRAPHS ON BLACK or GRAY BACKGROUND.
A PLEXIGLAS SHEET TO AVOID DISTORSIONS. BOOK AT 90 DEGREES
DIFFERENCES FROM OTHER PROJECTS
- Gallica: b/w, from microfilm
- Project Dioscorides: b/w, from microfilm, with terrible cuts
- Bibliothèque de Veterinaire - Université de Lyon: b/w images, good quality, pdf.
- Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, Florence: same images as DigLib, presented in other style.
- University of Milan: one of the first projects. Colour images, no margins.
- Austrian literature online: b/w, no margins, thumbnails to introduce further images.
- Max Planck Inst. and Harvard Univ.: thumbnails, b/w
- Smithsonian Institution: similar to DigLib.
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Marina Zuccoli - september 7th 2006