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Options for digital delivery

Options for digital delivery. Record Society Conference, April 19 th 2007 Bruce Tate Project Manager British History Online. The current situation. Widening audience Maximising usage Need for revenue generation Current technology evolving New emerging technology

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Options for digital delivery

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  1. Options for digital delivery Record Society Conference, April 19th 2007 Bruce TateProject ManagerBritish History Online

  2. The current situation • Widening audience • Maximising usage • Need for revenue generation • Current technology evolving • New emerging technology • Changing / rising user expectations Bruce Tate

  3. Making sense of the situation • Consider all 3 elements and their inter-relationships • Constantly updated intellectual model Bruce Tate

  4. Option 1/3 – simple HTML • The ‘webmaster’ phase • Could be born digital, or converted from typescript version used for print • Simple transcription can be done by non-technical volunteers • Little control over the data, no possibility for adding extra semantic meanings Bruce Tate

  5. Option 2/3 – double keying into XML • Requires scanned page images • Text is transcribed by two operators separately who also add bespoke XML tags at the same time • Third operator runs comparison checks, correcting any errors • Highly accurate (99.9% and above) – minimum benchmark for academic use • More expensive - £2 to £4 per page • Examples: • British History Online • Old Bailey Online Bruce Tate

  6. Option 3/3 – page image + OCR • Scanned page image is ‘read’ by Optical Character Recognition software, and a text transcript produced • Either, • output text for conversion to HTML, or • Save as image with ‘hidden’ text transcription to enable searching • Very fast, can be trained to learn from mistakes - processing can be refined many times • Requires proof reading and error checking; non-standard layouts, older typefaces (esp. oblique), and poor quality originals • Adobe Capture - £350, Omnipage Pro - £320, Abbyy Finereader £60 Bruce Tate

  7. Comparing the options Bruce Tate

  8. Some possible trends • More ‘co-operative’ content creation • More and more silver surfers • Growth of print on demand • ‘Mature’ Web 2.0: • Blog with useful information • Wiki with specialised terminology • Overlay Google Maps with data sets / photos Bruce Tate

  9. Round-up • Period of slow and intense change • Distinctions breaking down between: • User and creator • Society and contract publisher • Society and bookseller • Keep thinking about your users, organisation and technology plus the relationships between them. Bruce Tate

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