There are huge quantities of microfilm material in the archives of organisations and institutions in the UK and it is not difficult to understand why. Huge volumes of paper documents... read more →
The GDPR Conference Europe was held recently in London and it was surprising to get the feeling that a lot of businesses have not prepared for or are even aware... read more →
As experienced hands know, there’s more to a digitisation project than digitising images. Here are some tips on planning so you have your ducks in a row when the time... read more →
IDMi Deputy Editor John Baker is on his soapbox (again) regarding 'Lies, damned lies, and statistics reporters' and is backed-up by Paul Negus, MD of Genus I read with interest... read more →
Since 2008 Genus have been supplying Luminary Trading with high quality digitised images of their newspaper collections. Over the last 7 years Genus have built up a strong relationship with... read more →
Walk into any professional digitisation studio capturing heritage/library material and you are most likely to see a mixture of specialist scanning equipment and copy stands using DSLR cameras. The development... read more →
Genus recently attended a Digital Preservation Coalition event at the British Library called “What I wish I knew before I started.” This one-day conference brought together a group of leading... read more →
When you start out on a digitisation project you need to ask some key questions and the priority of these maybe different for each project. Consider why you are doing... read more →
As museums, libraries and archives digitise their collections the term ‘petabyte’ [which is one up from terabyte and two up from a gigabyte] has become increasingly regular in conversations. While... read more →