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 →