Friday, June 12, 2009

Media analyst Paul Reynolds likes what he observes at the British Library -

I have a growing admiration for what the British Library is achieving in the digital realm. It's partly driven by their strength of purpose around copyright, especially Dame Lynne Brindley trenchant critique of how digital rights management endangers scholarship.

However, they also seem to have grasped the harder truth that to maintain the moral and intellectual high ground it's also necessary to show how digitisation can add to both scholarship, as well as the more generic world of the 'visitor experience'Turning the Pages One project which consistently manages to bridge this potential divide is their Turning the Pages project - an ongoing set of projects which digitise a well known manuscript, and then present it alongside a commentary or a translation.

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