{"id":68,"date":"2010-05-17T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/dukelibrariespreservation\/2010\/05\/17\/ten-years-ten-people-alex-marsh-digitization-specialist\/"},"modified":"2011-02-16T04:30:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T04:30:44","slug":"ten-years-ten-people-alex-marsh-digitization-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/preservation\/2010\/05\/17\/ten-years-ten-people-alex-marsh-digitization-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years, Ten People: Alex Marsh, Digitization Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/preservation\/files\/2011\/02\/ethiopic_ms_35_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>Alex Marsh is a Digitization Specialist in the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/about\/depts\/dpc\/\">Digital Production Center<\/a>. He has been with us for five months and works primarily with rare and fragile materials from a variety of collections. He has recently worked with the Ethiopic Manuscripts collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biology.duke.edu\/herbarium\/\">Duke University Herbarium <\/a>materials, and American broadsides from the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/specialcollections\/\">Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections<\/a>. Many of these will be made available through our <a href=\"http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/digitalcollections\/index.html\">digital collections portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alex works with several different cameras to digitize the collections. Large materials or those that are particularly fragile go under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phaseone.com\/en.aspx\">Phase One Camera<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeutschel.com\/products\/color_scanner_os14000_tt.html\">Zeutschel 14000 A2 scanner<\/a> is best for those items that are smaller and flat, like manuscript collections or typescripts. We also have a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpdigital.com\/Products\/Migration\/Default.aspx?mrsc=SAMMASolo\">SAMMA Solo<\/a> migration system for digitizing our rare and aging videotape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/preservation\/files\/2011\/02\/ethiopic_ms_35_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/preservation\/files\/2011\/02\/ethiopic_ms_35_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>When asked to describe one of his favorite projects he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most interesting collection I have worked with so far are the Ethiopic manuscripts. They are very old and fragile and I cannot read the text, so I feel like an archeologist when I am handling them. Photographing the pages is tricky because they often do not lay flat, which causes focus issues, and, because I cannot read the text, it is possible to inadvertently miss a page or photograph the same page twice if I am not careful. It is exciting to work with such rare material and I look forward to seeing the project in digital format after completion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;\"><br \/>\nImages from Ethiopic Manuscript #35<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Marsh is a Digitization Specialist in the Digital Production Center. He has been with us for five months and works primarily with rare and fragile materials from a variety of collections. 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