Thursday July 31, 2008

-- Internet Archive Delivers NASA Images in LUNA
-- Insight v.6.0 + LUNA Released
-- Preservation and Access
-- Growing Community
-- Upcoming Conference Opportunities

Internet Archive Delivers NASA images in LUNA

Through a partnership with the Internet Archive the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA's amazing collection of photographs, historic film, audio and video is now available in our new LUNA browser. Totaling one hundred thousand objects this collection is freely available to the public at www.nasaimages.org.

This is the first step towards building a collection of over 5 million objects.

The new LUNA browser supports the creation of unique URL's to specific content. See a Slide Show of Cat's Eye Nebulas. Listen to President Richard Nixon speaking to Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin via telephone, while the two astronauts stand on the Moon's surface. Or, view an artist's animation showing a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. Enjoy!

Insight v.6.0 + LUNA Released

We’ve built a better browser. Introducing LUNA, the new browser for Insight collections.

The Insight Java Client revolutionized the way cultural heritage institutions worked with media via a desktop application. And now LUNA offers a second revolution: With LUNA collections are more than just page after page of thumbnails. A collection will be a framework for discovery, dynamically working with advanced features and sharing these features with the World Wide Web.

With LUNA, users can perform simple keyword searches as well as more complex structured queries, and control how they view, browse, and organize their results to create Media Groups and presentations. LUNA includes the Web 2.0 tools end users are demanding which enable them to save and share their work by linking and embedding any view, image, group, or presentation. All this and more in a browser !

For more details on the v6.0 + LUNA release, please visit the v6.0 information page at our website.

Preservation and Access

Luna Imaging, Inc. was established in 1993 to focus on preservation quality image capture and delivery. Our first project involved the digitization of color transparency film from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and we were instrumental in our early work with Kodak to help guide developing standards for film digitization for preservation. With the widespread adoption of text digitization for access (Google, Microsoft, Internet Archive) we've evaluated our offerings and now offer Access Scanning in addition to our Preservation services for both film and print source materials.

Our new Access Scanning services are unique in that they carry on Luna Imaging's tradition of quality and care in digitization, while providing you a faster and less costly way to make your collections more visible. Visit our website or more information on Access Scanning.

Growing Community

We are pleased to welcome the following new clients to the Insight Community: New York Municipal Archives; Bates College; University of Texas at Dallas; State University of New York at Albany; Glasgow School of Art (consortial partner with host Edinburgh University); College of Saint Rose, California Academy of the Sciences, and Birmingham City University.

Visit Luna at Upcoming Conferences

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco, Orlando, and Washington DC.

Next month we’ll be the Society of American Archivists annual conference in San Francisco, CA. In October we’ll be in Orlando for the Educause National conference and in November we’ll be in Washington, DC for the Museum Computer Network annual conference.

We are happy to schedule appointments to talk about your digital imaging needs and to review the new features provided in our latest v6.0 of our Insight software. To schedule an appointment, please contact sales@lunaimaging.com or call 1.800.452.LUNA (5862).