Very fine granules of a special substance are then sprinkled across it
Very fine granules of a special substance are then sprinkled across it. If you’re lucky, the different charges in the impressions on the paper will reveal the original text. I have to say, though, that in this particular case absolutely nothing could be worked out.These are all things I’ve used, though I have to say that the slide viewer and the humble pencil, the simplest pieces of technology, are those which I use most frequently. The library has a state-of-the-art conservation studio where every manuscript is checked, where they build individual Perspex stands to support every single item on show, where they fumigate and air manuscripts and check there’s nothing in the atmosphere to damage them.Another important development for the library has been digitisation. Here, a well-established technology – good old-fashioned pen and ink – meets a very hi-tech process.
For example, the library has a unique 10th century manuscript of Beowulf. This has been photographed using sophisticated techniques and put on a CD-rom, providing scholars worldwide with an invaluable tool. People often talk about digitisation replacing manuscripts, but they will both exist side by side It’ll just give the viewer another medium to use.. Georgia Hall brought a new meaning to the concept of a family firm when she founded the digital services agency Zinc. She had only recently had a baby, but could see the e-revolution coming and was determined not to miss out.
Georgia Hall brought a new meaning to the concept of a family firm when she founded the digital services agency Zinc. She had only recently had a baby, but could see the e-revolution coming and was determined not to miss out.
When the hours became frenzied and she was at her computer screen until 4am, working towards pitch deadlines with her tiny team, her infant daughter occupied her own corner of the office – fast asleep. “We used to work all night and all eight of us would turn up at a meeting pretending we were an agency of 20 people We wouldn’t have slept for a week It was hell. No wonder I love sleep now.”That was 1996; in the past five years Hall, now 37, and co-founder Ken Frakes have established Zinc as a leading one-stop digital shop, now overseeing 15 websites for Microsoft and providing marketing, programming and design services for clients such as Virgin Atlantic, Sony Music Europe and Vodafone.With 60 staff, the agency’s billing this year will be around £5m, but Zinc’s main expansion may come through ZnSpace, a media planning division which the pair set up six months ago. They lured sales supremos Julia McNally and Caroline Walton from VNU, and Hall sees the division, with its remit to expand into areas such as media buying in digital television, as the “next big thing”.Her own route into new media was via agencies.