Project Digitize It All (Announcement)
Our studies and jobs demand mobility, but our library demands stability. I have decided to look into ways to fully…
Category: DH in General
Mechanical keyboards (2)
It has been some months now that I have been using a mechanical keyboard at home. It has been great.…
How to build an archive (3): an archive that grows
One key aspect of curating your digital library is to notice when it is time to shift gears and scale…
Academia in the Digital Age
Talking openly about certain things, means being pounded into submission by some lawyer firm, sent by a couple of the…
Details of a scan job
I sometimes post details of scans that I did. Machine: Xerox WorkCentre 5665 Preferences: Contrast and Brightness to high. Filesize:…
Brill Publishers to offer print on demand
Brill has announced it will offer print-on-demand paperbacks for those books that you can access digitally through your institution. In…
Details of a scan on a standard printer
Machine: Xerox Workcentre 5665 Contrast & Brightness to high. File size to small. Format to 8,5 x 11″ (scans up…
Hardware is like a disobedient slave: 10 reasons to back-up your files
Despite how nice and shiny your computer is, no matter how much money you have spent on it, it will…
How to build an archive (2): different data
Without data, no archive. We will look at two different categorizations in this post. The nature of files, and the…
Mechanical keyboards (1)
Mechanical keyboards are of the old-fashioned type; looks like a brick and makes a lot of sound. Because each…