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Digitisation projects of the Biblioteca de Catalunya

Explore the digitization projects of the Biblioteca de Catalunya, founded in 1907, with a mission to collect, preserve, and share Catalan bibliographic production. Learn about the various digital repositories and initiatives aimed at increasing access to Catalan cultural heritage online.

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Digitisation projects of the Biblioteca de Catalunya

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  1. Digitisation projects of the Biblioteca de Catalunya Eugènia Serra eserra@bnc.cat

  2. The Library of Catalonia (I) It was founded in 1907 by Enric Prat de la Riba 3.000.000 documents Annual growing of 120.000 documents 230 reading places in 3.000 m2 Budget 2007: 11’5 M€ 174 employees + 65 km of shelving 2008  high density cooperative stacks

  3. The Library of Catalonia (II) Mission • To collect, preserve and make available the Catalan bibliograpic production and the related to the Catalan language. • To watch over the bibliographic heritage preservation and divulging. • Keeping up the condition of a consultation and universal scientific research center in every field of knowledge.

  4. The Library of Catalonia (III) OPEN RELIABLE USEFUL Vision

  5. Our frame of reference Strategic Plan 2004-2008 • Increase the presence of Catalan content at Internet • To pay special attention to digital context

  6. Projects and digital repositories • PADICAT: Digital heritage of Catalonia • ARCA: Old Catalan magazines archive • MDC: Digital Memory of Catalunya • RACO: Catalan magazines in open access • Google Books

  7. Digitization Programme (I) • Budget • 2005: 30.000 €  2006: 90.000 €  2007: 630.000 € • Purpose • Preservation and diffusion • Standards of digitization • Format, resolution, definition and compression. • 2 copies for every object (TIFF and JPEG) • Recommendations for outsourcing digitization

  8. Digitization Programme (II) Criteria of selection • public domain, • fragility • requeriments of use, • condition state, • matching to digital projects • interest for researchers Medadata • Dublin Core set of elements Selection of software (OAI)

  9. Digitization Programme (III) Collection of photographs Salvany http://www.bnc.cat/digital/salvany/ 9.800 photographic plates

  10. Digitization Programme (IV) Manuscripts and incunabula http://www.bnc.cat/fons/coldigital.php 103 manuscripts and 20 incunabula

  11. Is ... A cooperative portal on open access Wants ... • To make easier the access to periodicals • To identify, retrieve and preserve the Catalan periodicals heritage • To increase Catalan content at the Internet • To promote the use of standards • To promote good and common practices

  12. To give visibility to the project and its partners

  13. To add value to the portal

  14. Link digital object-library catalog To improve the access

  15. To promote the research

  16. Previsions 2007-2008 Digitization of more than 50 new titles to increase ARCA repository Crónica teatral y artística (1897) Cu-cut (1902-1914) Guirigay del 69, El (1869) Metralla (1919) Nau, La (Mataró) 1917-1919 Destino (1937-1985) La Veu de Catalunya (1891-1937) … Total of 800.000 pages

  17. What we have today (I)

  18. What we have today (II) • More presence of the Catalan culture in the Internet. • Shared practices and standards. • Low level of use of originals and growth of access and diffusion. • More experience.

  19. What we want for 2008-2009 • To design and build a system to manage digital copies from the point of view of preservation and service: • checking the integrity of files • reviewing the compatibility with new versions of the software • providing copies on demand • improve metadata

  20. We know we are yet at the beginning, but … we believe we are in the right way, promoting COOPERATION LEARNING OF OTHER EXPERIENCES Being aware of international initiatives, innovation and opportunities to improve. Conclusions

  21. Thank you very much for your attention !! The Library of Catalonia www.bnc.cat

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