One of the scanners used to digitize older materials at the British Library is for sale.
Including two professional cameras. With or without related software. You can contact the CCS, which worked with the British Library and Microsoft to scan books, for a price proposal. www.content-conversion.com
As i heard a few minutes ago, docWORKS[e] is released and ready to ship.
John Unsworth
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
University of Virginia
A “digital library,” in this discussion, means something more than the Web at large: it means an intentional collection of digital resources assembled, catalogued, indexed, preserved, and presented to serve the needs of scholarship. The digital library can exist outside the university–and increasingly, we will see them come into being in the form of the archives of corporations (Corning, for example, has mountains of historical data about its own operations, its own research, its own innovations)–but even in those cases, the purpose is more or less the same (Corning wants their engineers to be able to bring past experience to bear on current research agendas). To be called a “digital library” in the sense that I mean it here, the institution in question would have to present full-text (and full-image) resources, not just finding aids that point to boxes on a shelf–not that these aren’t very important: they’re simply not what I’m talking about here.
As they say on the new loc standards page:
CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH transfers maintenance of ALTO XML Schema to the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office.
The Library of Congress (LC) Network Development and MARC Standards Office has become the official maintenance agency for the ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) XML Schema. Prior to its arrival at LC, CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH 
maintained the ALTO standard. CCS has played a crucial role in ALTO’s development dating back to its creation during the METAe project .
Editorial Board members
… mit dem Gefasel von Bibliothek 2.0. Die angestrebte Stufe der Bibliothek kann nicht 2.0 sein. Das ist zweidimensional.
Die Bibliothek wird einen weiteren Energiezustand erreichen. Ihre Inhalte werden quasi zusätzlich flüssig, sobald digitalisiert und online verfügbar. Ah – da war das Wort: zusätzlich.
Das heißt im einsnullzweinull Jargon? 3.0? Is klar – und wieder schön zweidimensional. Zu wenig für die Vielschichtigkeit der Eindrücke, Erfahrungen und Begierden. Die Lust in Büchern zu blättern und mit der anderen Hand per Tastatur Informationen abzurufen. Das Erlebnis der haptischen historischen Erfahrung plus die Möglichkeit des Copy/Paste vom digitalen Abbild ist doch nicht 2.0. Das ist wohl eher ein Quantensprung. Pathetisch, ich weiß. Also doch 2.0? Hört mir doch auf.