More on Google Digitizing project

Ok, someone posted the press releases that are out from the various libraries involved in Google's digitizing project:

http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2004/Dec04/library/index
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/january12/google-0112.html
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/041214a.shtml
http://www.nypl.org/press/google.cfm
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/print_library.html
http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html

From the sound of it, they are using a technology that will allow for REALLY high-speed digitizing. This could be very, very good. Now, all they need is a Memex link-and-annotate structure-- they could sell subscriptions to it, maybe with a blog-type notes interface. That would, in my opinion, be a real research boon.

Applemoy Apples Royal

Ok, so I did get the apples done. Most of them, at least. I made a version of Apples Royal from a recipe cited in Take 1000 Eggs, vol. 1:
Laud Ms. 553 (Bodleian Library)
Apply moys. Nym appeles, seth hem, let hem kele, frete hem throwe an her syue; cast it on a pot / & on a fless day cast thereto goud fat broth of bef, & white grese sugur & safron, & on fissh days almand mylke, & oille de oliue, & sugur, & safron: boille hit, messe hit, cast aboue good poudre, & 3if it forth.

Here's what I did ( Read more... )