New digitization tool

["Joseph J. Esposito" <espositoj@gmail.com>]

There have been a number of intriguing posts on this list about 
new digitization projects, most recently Emerald's new program. 
I would like to call attention to a technology company that 
provides a service to digitize assets and then tags those assets 
in XML.  The service can also work with files that are already in 
digital form (e.g., a collection of PDFs).  The content can then 
be displayed through a Web viewer.  The company is Olive 
Software; see http://olivesoftware.com.  There is a special page 
for libraries: 
http://olivesoftware.com/solutions/libraries.asp.

I have been working with Olive in the book area, but I suspect 
that there are more applications in the academic area for 
journals and other materials that are archived in libraries 
(e.g., microfilm).  Olive already has relationships with a number 
of libraries, including Oxford and the University of 
Pennsylvania.  They began their business digitizing backfiles for 
newspaper publishers (e.g., Washington Post).

No doubt Olive is already familiar to the more technically-minded 
members of this list, but I would be happy to chat with anyone 
who wants to learn more about it.

Joe Esposito