<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tony,</div><div><br></div><div>obviously that is the case, but the technology does exist to do this. A simple disclaimer and suggested colour standardisation method appended to the frontispiece of the scanned documents should make this clear to users (scans would of course have to be colour corrected using a standardisation technique in the first place).</div><div><br></div><div>The technical requirements of this may restrict the value of a scanned copy to those with a colour standardisation set up, but such technology is probably more readily available than a copy the original document.</div><div><br></div><div>Paolo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 February 2015 at 11:16, Tony Irwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dr.tony.irwin@gmail.com" target="_blank">dr.tony.irwin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Unfortunately, digital reproduction is pointless unless a specific monitor and specific settings for that monitor are used. There is simply too much variation in the colours on monitors (and printers) to enable a standard colour chart to work.</div>
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<div>Perhaps this is a publication that would benefit from being digitised and made freely available online. This is something that NatSCA did with the Carter & Walker book <em>Care and Conservation of Natural History Collections</em>: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.natsca.org_care-2Dand-2Dconservation&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=DbbPQ_43HuojhcA3DsCQGAWEzrUZx0rvqCjjphkGwsg&s=DZm_U5f4YocYIO01RZFVewX5YI_Pd22fpEkybfsnMp0&e=" target="_blank">http://www.natsca.org/care-and-conservation</a> and it's proved useful.</div>
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<div>Does anyone know who holds the copyright on the <em>Naturalist’s Color Guide</em><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri" size="3"></font>? Presumably AMNH as the publisher?</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All -- I've read a few species description papers lately in which the authors have described specimens' coloration with a color code, e.g.: Glaucous #80, Olive #29, etc. What's the source? Where can I get this code? Thanks -- ck<br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
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