This is an attempt to make a self-assessment of the HUMI Project, activities at Keio University, which was launched in 1996, with the acquisition of the Gutenberg Bible, as an inter-faculty initiative to make digital archives of rare books and manuscripts at home or abroad, and to offer some future prospects. While the HUMI Project started as a consortium comprising more than a dozen firms in information technology, communication, printing, trading, and dissemination of books, immensely benefiting from their financial and technical assistance, we made it a rule at the outset to avoid outsourcing as much as possible in terms of digitization of rare books from photography through digital processing and making digital images available on the Internet as well as other media. In the past eight years of digital archiving we have obviously made trials and errors, or in other words, have done a right thing at a right time, in choosing and practicing digital photography as well as data processing, which is summarized in the present article. The digital content which has thus been accumulated so far will be made good use of further development of networks in the digital research fields.
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