Wednesday September 27, 2006

-- Digital Imaging Services
-- Insight v5.6 Development
-- Luna Hosts on New Sun T2000 Server
-- Growing Community & Global Outreach
-- Content Through Community
-- Initiatives & Partnerships

Digital Imaging Services

Let Luna help your organization launch a digital imaging project. We employ our years of industry-leading experience to help you establish best practices to meet your institutional needs. Enlisting our consulting services at the start of a project can provide you with the knowledge base needed to get your projects off the ground while our digitization services will put your collection on the fast track to completion.

Insight v5.6 Development

Insight isn’t just about efficient image delivery or comprehensive end-user tools. Beginning with v5.6, Insight will support the storage and retrieval of the source images. This will allow you to archive your master images to the Insight Media Server. Also new in Insight v5.6 is browser based support for an expanded list of formats (including .pdf and .doc). Insight clients will receive information on the v5.6 release in October.

Luna Hosts on New Sun T2000 Server

Luna’s cool new Sun Fire T2000 server is being prepared for our newest hosted client, Birkbeck College, University of London. This high-performance CoolThreads server runs Solaris 10 and utilizes containers and ZFS. Birkbeck College selected Luna’s Hosting Service in order to focus resources on content building. With 24/7 access to their dedicated collection server at Luna’s Los Angeles facility, they will process media and catalogue with the Insight suite of tools including Insight Studio, Inscribe, and Personal Insight from their London location.

Growing Community & Global Outreach

The Insight Community continues to grow as we welcome these new clients: Allegheny College; Birkbeck College, University of London; Bowdoin College; Framingham State College; Mount Allison University; Sarah Lawrence College; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; and Wayne State University.

[J.C. Capek]
Pratt Institute
Ex-Libris Collection
[view in Insight]

With a growing list of UK clients (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Manchester, Sheffield Hallam University, Birkbeck College), Luna made its first appearance at a UK conference and participated in Arlis UK this past July. We are now preparing for the upcoming Museum Computer Network Conference in our own backyard — Pasadena, CA; the town most famously known for flower covered parade floats.

Content Through Community

As the community grows, so does the list of available collections… Newest additions are from Pratt Institute, Bucknell College, University of Manchester, University of Kansas and the Corbis Beta Collection.

Initiatives & Partnerships

Luna is working with Scholars Resource to provide licensed images as a pre-built Insight collection. Once the images are licensed from Scholars Resource, Luna will transfer the collection directly to the client’s Insight servers. Clients using the Scholars Resource Collection data structure will have the added benefit of being able to refresh data as updates become available. For more information on this service please contact Scholars Resource.

NITLE hosted the Insight-focused Digital Image Collection Development workshop at Vassar College earlier this month. The workshop covered basic information on developing and provisioning digital image collections, including digitization, file formats and standards, metadata, and cataloguing processes within the context of Insight.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has recently launched a new digital humanities initiative. Learn more about grant programs and NEH-funded digital projects.