Archiving Images with an Open Source Scanning Robot

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Rikki Endsley
Apr 1, 2012

“Project Gado is developing an inexpensive, open source,
autonomous archival scanning robot. The goal? To create a tool that
will allow small archives and museums digitize holdings at a low
cost and help preserve important documents and pictures. In the
process of developing the Gado, the ambitious project is also
helping preserve the Afro-American Newspapers photo collection.


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