Re: Challenges page update...

[reeds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Reeds)]

On Aug 11, 19:24, Nick Pelling wrote:

> Subject: Re: Challenges page update...
> Hi Jim,
> 
> At 12:43 11/08/01 -0400, Jim Reeds wrote:
> >The alternative plan, suggested by Yale, was to get the job done
> >by a certain scanning firm, specialists in rare book & art object
> >scanning, with which the library has a special relationship.
> 
> What type of scan would they do? Purely RGB, or UV as well (and maybe 
> glancing)?

Full frontal RGB is what they do.  Everyone agrees that a clear
set of color photocopies is needed;  no-one has made a case for
any high-tech examination (with funny wavelengths, or of inks)
in any terms more specific than "who knows what it might turn
up?".


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