Papers and research results from KDCS are posted in this space.
Deciding whether Optical Character Recognition is feasible (PDF document)
Document created for the Oxford University Digital Library to introduce character recognition techniques. The document
illuminates the key factors in designing a text capture method and
provides advice to digitisation projects on how to approach a text capture project and
how the various mechanisms of scanning and text capture fit together.
Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American art museums
The results of a Mellon funded project aurveying 100 art museums and interviewing 20 in depth about rights and reproduction policy, pricing and strategy.
Next
generation management: planning digital projects
Feature article by Simon Tanner in Library and Information Update, December
2003.
The
economic value of digital cultural heritage: models and strategies
Paper by Simon Tanner presented at SEPIA 2003: Changing Images, the role of
photographic collections in the digital age. Helsinki, 18-20 September 2003.
Parallel Lives: digital and analog options for
access and preservation
Joint conference of the National Preservation Office and King's College London,
10 November 2003
A question of cost: choices on
the road to digitisation
Paper by Simon Tanner presented at Parallel Lives conference, 10 November
2003. (PDF file)
Economic
Factors of Managing Digital Content and Establishing Digital Libraries
Editorial by Simon Tanner to themed issue of Journal of Digital Information: Economic Factors in Digital
Libraries, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2003.
The
digital dark ages: digital preservation
Feature article by Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner in Library and Information
Update, May 2002.
In Print
Digital Futures: strategies for the information age
Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner, Facet Publishing, 2002.
Sample chapter (pdf)
DLib book review
Pricing of digital resources: an interview with Simon Tanner
Electronic Journal Forum, Serials Review, Vol 29 No 2, 2003. pp 121-126