Some digital scholarship involves the use of content that is currently only available in hard copy. That material needs to be digitalised to get it into a format that can be used for computational analysis or as part of training an AI model.
Libraries and Learning Resources has a Digitisation Service that can offer the following support:
- Copyright support.
- Loan of a scan tent and guidance on how best to digitise materials.
- Digitising print items for you. This is a limited service, and we cannot always support at peak times, but please contact us to discuss.
- Assistance with converting print files into alternative formats.
- Support with adding Optical Character Recognition to printed texts.
- Providing access to Transkribus for handwritten text recognition.
For more information on any of the above please contact us on: copyright@contacts.bham.ac.uk