Digitisation update

I gave a presentation about our various digitisation activities to the ITLT on June 12th which scored a first for me: having spoken for more than my allotted time I attempted to wrap up the session quickly and was urged to carry on  – “it’s interesting” they said.  I have a follow up engagement, speaking [...]

Digitisation Update 14/05/2009

Luna Collections Update on numbers: Rylands Collection 6716 of which 5118 are available in the public collection Genizah Collection 12409 Medieval Collection 2725 Rylands Papyri 299 Additional material funded and due for adding soon: Shahnama (Persian epic poetry with illustrations), Dante (early printed books), Darby bible JISC e-Content bid Carol Burrows is preparing a bid [...]

Digitisation/E-resources R&D Update

Luna server and its collections Support is ongoing for Deansgate projects and also work towards implementation of the new LUNA system. Manuscripts are being added steadily to the medieval collection. Having investigated the work involved, Genizah staff have decided to put their record enhancement sub-project on hold until they see how much time is available [...]

Digitisation/E-resources R&D Update

Luna server and its collections Slow saving in the images database on the new server has been fixed.  Took a long time to identify the cause and 30 seconds to fix.  Save times reduced from 45 seconds to 5. Rylands Medieval collection is now live, already contains 5 of the projected 40+ manuscripts Genizah Project [...]

Digitisation/IT Research and Development

1. Digitisation Luna Insight has been migrated to a new server and upgraded in the process to the new Version 6.0.  Service name remains the same (enriqueta.man.ac.uk) so that existing client viewer installations do not need upgrading immediately.  Old server is still running under a new name and will be used for testing purposes.  The [...]

Digitisation/Systems Development

1. Digitisation Plans are progressing for Luna Imaging to migrate our image databases to the new server in the week beginning January 12th. There will be some down-time but it will be kept to a minimum. A test Luna collection has been set up to hold the English Manuscripts Project data and images. The test [...]

Digitisation/Systems Development

1.  Digitisation.  Plans are in hand to replace the four year old Luna server with a new Sun machine capable of supporting Luna version 6 and much larger collections than at present.  Image files will be stored on the SAN rather than internally as now.   Machine is being funded by the JISC English MSS project, “In the Begynning”. [...]