Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) is proud to announce over 64 thousand images from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s vast archives have been launched live on FlickR.com, making the SDASM the owner of one of the largest online collections of aviation images in the world.
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Granting public access to the collection online with Flickr.com allows anyone from researchers and school students to aviation enthusiasts, veterans and the general public to view, tag and comment on the images, thereby adding valuable content and context to the collection. SDASM plans to have over 100,000 images digitized and posted online by the end of the year...
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The SDASM archival team of Alan Renga and Katrina Pescador have been working with BPOC for months to digitize images on a highly specialized rapid capture station, purchased by BPOC as part of its greater mission to implement new technology, training and web development programs throughout Balboa Park. The rapid capture imaging station is built around a high end DSLR Canon 5D camera rather than a flat bed scanner, which most museums have used for digitization work in the past. In the new, fully portable setup, the camera is attached to a copy stand, which stabilizes the camera and eliminates the need to adjust the exposure. An attached laptop then automatically processes the images. Since the camera is locked in place, archivists can quickly change out images, digitizing upwards of 700 images per day in some cases.
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