To crop or not to crop? Preparing images for page turning applications
How do you prepare digital images of physical archive volumes for display within a web-based page turning application? I thought this was going to be a fairly straight forward question when I was faced with it a couple of months ago. Over the summer I have been supervising an internship project with the goal of finalising a set of exisiting digital images for display within a page turning application. The images were digital surrogates of the visitation records for the Archdeaconry of York between 1598 and 1690 (for more information about these records see our project page on the Borthwick website ). I soon realised that there are many ways of approaching this problem and few standard answers. Google is normally my friend but googling the problem surfaced only guidelines geared towards particular tools and technologies - not the generic guides to good practice in this area that I was hoping for. Page turning for digital versions of modern books is fairly straightforward. They will be