Jumping Monkeys Episode 60: The Comeback

Today's guest is journalist Emma Gilbey Keller, author of upcoming book, The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again.

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ARCHIVIST ALISON on Scanning Your Digital Photos. Here is a PDF of the photo scanning guidelines from the National Archives. Alison says see page 54.


LISTENER FEEDBACK

Ken from the Netherlands loves LibriVox, especially because he runs Linux and can't use Audible.

Krista from California recommends G Diapers.

Beverly Hills reminds us that the newest version of Word is a good answer to the problem of keeping local copies of your blog.

Suzanne recommends Boohbah.

Thanks to Taylor Karras for the live transcript of the show.

Comments

How come Leo and Archivist Alison were fighting in the middle of the podcast about digitizing photos it's not that big of a deal!

[Archivist Alison]

I wouldn't go so far as to say that we were fighting; it just turns out that Leo and I have different opinions on the topic. I hope, though, that our discussion might help folks understand that there is rarely ever "one right way" to do these sorts of things. We all just have our opinions.

[Archivist Alison]

Writing that comment above reminded me of one other thing worth mentioning.

In our discussion during this episode, the term "resolution" gets tossed around quite a bit, and not in the most precise manner.

What I am actually suggesting in this conversation is that, for preservation purposes, the pixel dimensions of the digital images (e.g., 3000 pixels on the long side) are actually more interesting to me than image resolution (e.g. 300 pixels/inch).

Further insights on this topic can be found by listening to this episode or reading my blog (esp. http://www.archivistalison.com/posts/29).

Hope that makes things at least a little clearer!