{"id":465,"date":"2022-05-25T13:35:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T20:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/theopenbook\/?p=465"},"modified":"2022-05-25T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T20:35:33","slug":"troubleshooting-and-workarounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/theopenbook\/2022\/05\/25\/troubleshooting-and-workarounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshooting and Workarounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we are working with fragile, irreplaceable material, it’s critical that the object is properly supported during image capture. Sometimes, this means I have to jury-rig something suitable and every time one of my configurations works it’s deeply satisfying.<\/p>\n

Recently, I was working with some 16th century books that contain fragments of other works, often as binding, and one in particular posed a challenge as it was too big for the acrylic cradles we had on hand. I reached out to Special Collections to see what pieces they had and was supplied with two slightly different large acrylic pieces. I was able to clip them together and add a support underneath in a way that allowed me to rest the large item open on top, fully supported, to capture the wrapper, including the spine.<\/p>\n

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the setup! two cradles clipped together and supported by journals and styrofoam blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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book, resting on jury-rigged setup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The book rested there for a little under 10 minutes (the scan took almost 7 minutes) and the result was exactly what I’d hoped.<\/p>\n

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image captured from setup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since I also captured the front and back cover separately, I wasn’t worried about the angle, as my focus was the spine. The completed scans have been uploaded for use on vault: Psalter? Fragment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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