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My way: Interview with Neil Fitzgerald
Working with Microsoft, the British Library is embarking upon a massive programme to digitise its unmatched collection of books, manuscripts and other items. It's a daunting challenge, even using semi-automated systems that scan thousands of pages per month, as the project's manager Neil Fitzgerald explains. Interview by Keri Allan.Allan, Keri ; Fitzgerald, Neil
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Image Capture: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
One of the most important stages in any digitisation project is to design and implement a consistent approach to capturing digital images. How an institution does this will to a large extent depend on what kind of material it wants to digitise, the aim for which it digitises, available funds...IMPACT Project ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Mühlberger, Günter ; Anderson, Niall
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Intellectual Property and Copyright: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
It may not possible or practical to find certain rights owners and so gain their permissions. If their material is still required for the project, it is important therefore to be able to identify and mange the risks involved in using a third party’s material where no permission has been...IMPACT Project ; White, Ben ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Anderson, Niall
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Project Planning: IMPACT Best Practice Guide
Digitisation projects take in expertise from a wide variety of institutional sources, from subject curators and preservation staff, hardware and software specialists, to experts in intellectual property law. Depending on the physical capacity of the institution and the size and type of the collections to be digitised, the process may...IMPACT Project ; Conteh, Aly ; Fitzgerald, Neil ; Anderson, Niall