Archiving Images with an Open Source Scanning Robot
Updated: 2012-03-30 18:37:06
Project Gado is developing an inexpensive, open source, autonomous archival scanning robot. The goal? To create a tool that will allow small archives and museums digitize holdings at a low cost and help preserve important documents and pictures. In the process of developing the Gado, the ambitious project is also helping preserve the Afro-American Newspapers photo collection.

Let's face it: everybody likes having data, but nobody likes staring at a column of numbers. If you cannot sculpt your raw data into a visualization that either illuminates the problem or helps you find the solution, then you're only halfway done. Luckily there are tools like Gnuplot available, which allow you to manually or automatically generate high-quality visual representations of your data sets. The new release, 4.6, adds some important features from a mathematical standpoint — and just as importantly, many updates to the output framework, including support for generating interactive HTML5 displays.
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Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it because it's not for scientists; rather it's maintained by science organizations. Let's kick the tires on the latest release and see what makes it special.