{"id":3295,"date":"2010-03-11T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2010-03-11T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:03:16","slug":"pictureit-rare-book-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/pictureit-rare-book-reader.html","title":{"rendered":"PictureIt Rare Book Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Michigan has unveiled the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/pictureit\"><strong>PictureIt Rare Book Reader<\/strong><\/a>, an on-screen reader that is similar to others that I have seen, but faster, smoother, and simply beautiful to see and use.<\/p>\n<p>The first book available online is volume one of John James Audubon&#8217;s Birds of America:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3296\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/pictureit\/audubon_volume1.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3296\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3296\" title=\"PictureIt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PictureIt-300x197.png\" alt=\"PictureIt Rare Book Reader screenshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PictureIt-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PictureIt-1024x672.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/PictureIt.png 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the image to open the reader<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The software will be released under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons license<\/a> at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p><em>found via the <a href=\"http:\/\/mblog.lib.umich.edu\/blt\/archives\/2010\/03\/pictureit_rare.html\">Blog for Library Technology<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Michigan has unveiled the PictureIt Rare Book Reader, an on-screen reader that is similar to others that I have seen, but faster, smoother, and simply beautiful to see and use. The first book available online is volume &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/pictureit-rare-book-reader.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2921,2943,2948,2952,2966],"tags":[3974,4952,5165,4960,3454],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-libraries","category-news","category-online-services","category-software","tag-creative-commons","tag-electronic-publishing","tag-john-james-audubon","tag-technologyinternet","tag-university-of-michigan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-R9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}