Thursday September 6, 2007

-- LUNA Release Anticipated
-- Digitization Solution for Lantern Slides
-- Growing Community
-- Insight and Education: Collaboration and Discovery
-- Visit Luna Imaging at Upcoming Conferences

Will it still be Insight? LUNA release anticipated

Development is going well and the Beta release of Insight v6.0 + LUNA is only months away. Independent of Insight, LUNA is the new browser front end that will dynamically expose images and data from Insight repository collections. Together, LUNA and the Insight Software Suite provide superior end-user interfaces for searching, viewing and managing images, audio video, and other media.

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 groups and presentations. LUNA includes the Web 2.0 tools your users are demanding which enable them to save and share their work by linking and embedding any view, image, group, or presentation.

For more information on the upcoming release please see What’s New at Luna Imaging.

Digitization Solution for Lantern Slides Yields Exceptional Results

Lantern slides represent a unique scanning dilemma since they are comprised of both the transmissive slide and the reflective border area. While the image itself is the focus of the capture, the border around the slide typically contains information that puts the lantern slide into context and identifies the historical source of the image. Unfortunately, there is no capture technique that supports both transmissive and reflective content in a single capture.

But with a recent project for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, our DIS staff successfully devised a process for compiling both the transmissive and reflective aspects of the lantern slide.

Image courtesy of Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Growing Community

We are pleased to welcome the following new clients to the Insight Community: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts; Friedmutter Group; Furman University; Oklahoma State University; San Diego State University; Scripps College (consortia partner with host Pomona College); University of Plymouth; University of Southern California; and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Insight and Education: Collaboration and Discovery

Luna Imaging will be in Seattle in October 23 - 26 for the 2007 Educause National Conference. As first time Educause exhibitors, we are very much looking forward to this event and the opportunity to present LUNA as a solution for collaboration and discovery.

Visit Luna Imaging at Upcoming Conferences

See you in Fargo, Long Beach, Baltimore, Chicago and Saratoga Springs.

Next week we’ll be at the Mountain-Plains Museum Association annual conference in Fargo, ND. In October we’ll be in Long Beach for the California Library Association annual conference and Baltimore for the PALINET Digitization Expo. November takes us to Chicago for the Museum Computer Network annual conference, and then to Saratoga Springs, NY for the NYLINK annual Showcase. See our complete conference schedule for 2007.

We are happy to schedule appointments to talk with you about your digital imaging needs and to review the new features in our upcoming v6.0 release of our Insight Software Suite. To schedule an appointment, please contact sales@luna-img.com or call 1.800.452.LUNA (5862).