• Ben Kreunen

    I'm a scientific photographer by qualification (BAppSci (Photography)) with 20 years of experience in imaging and IT support at The University of Melbourne prior to starting with the University Digitisation Centre in 2009.

    University Digitisation Centre

  1. Naming files and folders for digitisation

    Naming files and folders is a fundamental part of managing any sort of digital data and yet 90% of people who come to use our scanners …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2018/05/02/naming-files-and-folders-for-digitisation

  2. Cooking with DOS: Reading metadata

    Having discovered how simple it is to write metadata to a file it’s now time to look at how this metadata can be reused by other …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/09/28/cooking-with-dos-reading-metadata

  3. Cooking with DOS: Writing metadata

    Embedding metadata into digitised files is a 3 stage process… collecting metadata, preparing it and then writing it into the files. In this post I’ll just …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/09/24/cooking-with-dos-writing-metadata

  4. Cooking with DOS: Converting Images to PDF

    Do you scan documents with your camera? In this post we’ll whip up some Imagemagick scripts to not only convert folders of images to PDFs but …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/09/20/cooking-with-dos-converting-images-to-pdf

  5. Serra Explorer v2 RC is here!

    Photo of a tent on top of Mt Frederick, Grampians NP.

    Serra Explorer is a proof of concept tool that demonstrates how metadata from a library catalogue can be collected and re-purposed using an iPhone or iPad. …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/05/30/serra-explorer-v2-rc-is-here

  6. Just Get It!

    Forgot your USB and need some way to transfer your scans from our scanners?  Can’t edit your images because you don’t have Photoshop and can’t afford …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/04/27/just-get-it

  7. What resolution should I scan at?

    So you need to get some images scanned but your confused by different people giving you different numbers for DPI?  Don’t Panic Immediately!  Figuring out what …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/03/21/what-resolution-should-i-scan-at

  8. Cooking with DOS

    The Windows command line scares most people but if you want to automate stuff then command line scripts can be your best friend. In this series …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2016/09/28/cooking-with-dos

  9. Google Earth Overlays

    Google Earth can display online images as an overlay above the satellite imagery without requiring any special server software. There are only a few requirements: High …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2016/08/04/google-earth-overlays

  10. Lift off!

    After years of tossing around plans to share more of the technical bits behind the scenes at the University Digitisation Centre of the University of Melbourne …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2015/12/17/lift-off