The project is experimenting with Z39.50 and plans to provide searching facilities via its OPAC . Plans are also being developed to investigate the implementation of image content retrieval techniques. Users are not required to register with the archive. The images are not protected in any way - information is included with the digital image but this information could be removed. Technical information is useful when reviewing and modifying procedures and will be useful in the future development and preservation of the digital resource.
Images are quality assured throughout the digitisation chain.
As previously documented manuscripts are carefully chosen at the outset. A lot of implied editing is carried out during image capture e.g. blank areas are not removed. Each image is individually checked as part of the post-processing as the first stage in this process is a manual one. Regular random checks are made from the image server to check data integrity. The project has a manager and two digitisers.