UBC Library digitizes William Shakespeare’s First Folio
21 November, 2022
UBC Library has made its first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies openly accessible to the public by publishing a digitized version of the volume online through Open Collections. The process to digitize the First Folio took more than a year to facilitate due to the Folio’s age and fragility.
The First Folio arrived at UBC in September 2021 and almost immediately, work with UBC Library’s conservator Anne Lama began in order to plan for its 2D digitization.
“Digitization is not as simple as photocopying a document, especially when it concerns a valuable artefact. There is so much to prepare behind-the-scenes. One step concerns the assessment of the document, and setting it up for safe manipulation, to check that the document can handle the operation without further damage,” says Lama.
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