Volume 32, Issue 2

The digital imaging workflow for Worthington Memory includes the following steps: i. Recording information about the original source ii. Image capture (scanning) iii. Recording information about image capture (scanning) iv. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) v. Transcription vi. Recording information about transcription vii. OCR verification viii. Recording information about OCR verification ix. Creation of Dublin Core Records

Lugt's Répertoire Online, created by IDC Publishers in close co-operation with the Netherlands Institute for Art History RKD in The Hague, is an impressive resource tool and welcome addition for researchers who require information located within the complex arena of auction house art sales catalogs. Also referred to as art sales catalogs, auction catalogs are valuable sources of information on the provenance of art objects, the history of collecting, and historical market trends. Locating auction sales information can be one of the more challenging tasks for a researcher. There are literally thousands of auction house sales catalogs produced worldwide each year, and it is often difficult for a researcher to pinpoint which catalog holds the desired information. Researchers usually turn to union lists of sales catalogs, such as Frits Lugt's Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques. Lugt's Répertoire Online, the first volume of which was released by IDC in January 2003, is the electronic version of Lugt's Répertoire, a union list of sales catalogs that has been critical to researchers for more than half a century. This immense printed work in 4 volumes appeared between 1938 and 1987, and although it has been out of print for years, Lugt's Répertoire is still one of the most widely consulted art historical reference works as it essentially functions as a finding aid for art sales catalogs. In the print version of the Répertoire, which covers the period 1600 to 1925, Lugt lists more than 100,000 art sales catalogs from libraries in Europe and the United States. He not only describes the collections of the larger libraries, such as the Paris Bibliothèque de l'Art et de l'Archéologie, but also catalogs the contents of minor collections. Volume 1 of the Lugt's Répertoire Online lists catalogs from the period 1600 to 1825. Volume 2 (1826–1860) has recently been added and therefore more than doubling the current number of records, and the additional volumes will follow sometime soon thereafter.

Canon recently introduced the MS 300 as the new entry level model of its digital microfilm scanner series. The MS 300 is reasonably priced and offers the resolution and grayscale capabilities of the top model MS 800 for less money than the MS 400.