ideal large scale scanning setup?

I did a similar project several years ago (History of Water Management in Florida) where we received about 20 boxes of assorted documents from various individuals around the state. We designed an archive system, then began the scanning project, then linked the scanned documents to the database, which included bibliographic info. We used our main campus' digital collections group to help with the OCR of the documents (we wanted them searchable) and put them onto the web. Here's a link: http://floridawaterhistory.com

We used a Fujitsu high speed scanner (only one) and I hired students as OPS to do the scanning and storing. I handled the database design and maintenance. The whole process took a couple of years.
I'd be happy to talk with you about how we designed the Archive system as well as the scanning process.
Andy

Andrew Z. Adkins III
Director, Legal Technology Institute
Executive Director, ICAIR
Adjunct Professor - Law Practice Management
University of Florida Levin College of Law
P.O. Box 117644 | Gainesville, FL 32611-7644
(v) 352-273-0765 | (f) 352-392-3005
adkins@law.ufl.edu | www.law.ufl.edu/lti

PBefore printing this e-mail think if it is necessary

>>> John Mayer <jmayer@cali.org> 7/17/2009 10:00 AM >>>
I assume you know about LIPA
http://www.aallnet.org/committee/lipa/

They have a 2005 white paper that talks about folks who have done
preservation projects - seems like a good place to find others who
have gone before you...
http://www.aallnet.org/committee/lipa/LIPA_White_Paper_Final.pdf

John

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Stacey Rowland<nonsense28@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Our University might be receiving a grant to digitize a large amount a
> loose leaf documents, boxes and boxes of documents. I've been tasked
> with figuring out an ideal solution for scanning, formatting and
> eventually making these documents available and accessible to the
> public. So my questions to the list are 1) does anyone have any
> experience in this area and would be willing to share some advice 2)
> what would be your ideal setup. At this point, price is not an object
> and the final budget might be several hundred thousands of dollars.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Stacey Rowland
> University of Mississippi, Public Services Law Librarian
> _______________________________________________
> You are currently subscribed to teknoids as: jmayer@cali.org.
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to teknoids-leave@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
> --
> See the web interface at http://ruckus.law.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/teknoids to get your list password, unsubscribe, and view your list settings.
>