Wednesday, May 26, 2010

DIGITIZE
-- Why Outsource Digitization?
-- Our Digitization Services

DELIVER
-- LUNA's New BookReader
-- NASA Images Wins ALA Award
-- Open Content and LUNACommons.org
-- Hosting Services

Why Outsource Digitization?

Digitization projects are complicated and demand that you have answers to many questions. Do your schedule and budget allow you to: hire and train image professionals? find and purchase the right equipment? ensure your equipment won’t become obsolete? methodically give every image the required attention i.e. scan, edit, correct, crop? perform extensive QC on all projects and then correct mistakes? ensure correct file directory organization? calculate all costs upfront and keep to your deadlines?

Digitizing assets means more than just simple scanning. It’s a complex process with a lot of variables. Our quotes will be lower than what you can do in-house and while there are many vendors to choose from, only Luna Imaging will provide you with the most services and value for your digitization dollars.

Learn more, or contact us.

Our Digitization Services

In addition to day-to-day book and print capture, high volume negative and slide scanning projects, we also have the skills to expertly handle your special digitization needs as illustrated by our most recent projects:

Scrolls
Nitrate Negatives
Glass plate negatives
Panoramic prints
Handwritten ledgers

Movie posters

Lantern Slides

Newspapers

Yearbooks

Newsletters

LUNA's New BookReader

LUNA’s BookReader allows users to search inside a book, turn its pages, and zoom into the text. Of course. But because our BookReader is a part of the amazing LUNA browser, its added features make it rise above the competition.

We’re not satisfied with just giving our audience a run of the mill feature. With Insight v6.0 we mastered the art of dynamically delivering high resolution images on the web, and now we’ve done the same for text-based objects.

Stay tuned for more details about our new LUNA BookReader and full text search coming this summer.

NASA Images wins ALA Award

NASA Images, powered by Luna Imaging Inc.'s LUNA software, has been selected as one of the Best Free Reference Web Sites 2010!

The site was one of 30 sites to win for “Best Free Reference Web Site 2010” from the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA. NASA Images is a free service of the Internet Archive and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration providing access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections via the LUNA browser from Luna Imaging, Inc.

We are very proud to have been a part of this valuable project and encourage you to visit www.nasaimages.org.

Open Content and the LUNACommons.org vision

We hear a lot about budget reductions and how many institutions are faced with cutting back on subscriptions and licensed resources. One of our primary goals has always been to make it easy for institutions to share content in a secure environment, and now it seems this feature is more in demand than ever before.

The flexible nature of our LUNA browser allows our clients to easily share and receive LUNA collections. And with sophisticated authentication options, you can easily control just how much you want to share.

Come share with us, visit www.lunacommons.org to sample free collections and learn more.

Hosting Services

Take advantage of our economies of scale and don’t waste money on hardware and infrastructure that will become obsolete. With hosting, support and the Insight + LUNA software suite available in one bundle at a seriously affordable price, Luna Imaging is not only providing top of the line digitization services, but also an amazing platform for delivering your digitized content.

Please contact sales@lunaimaging.com or call 1.800.452.LUNA (5862) for a quote, a demo, or just a chat.