I'm a bad blogger

Man, keeping up with this thing's even tougher than I thought. It's been an insane week, between trying to get my house bought (still working on that one) and now 2, count 'em, 2 sick kittens (still working on that one, two).

Anywho, I'm in the middle of the Understanding Digital Libraries book. Even as a digitizer, this is more than a bit of TMI. The section on digitizing videos was pretty interesting, though. We did this once, but had to pull it down within a week due to issues with one of the people's hair. Ah, well, worked great while it was up. CONTENTdm's a tad expensive (though any Pennsylvania library in AccessPA can get it for free through the Bureau of Library Development- head to http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/cwp/view.asp?a=6&q=40519 and look for Sandy Nork's name in the second section), but it'll handle most any format, from text to image to video and audio.

If you want a good overview of what it takes to do a digital prject, though, the NINCH guide's probably the best. It's at http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/, and can be gotten in PDF by following the last link in the right column. Again, a tad technical, but it's got all you need to know.

Well, signing off and back to the books. Tapatcha later.