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Digiti z ation activities in the Hungarian National Library

Digiti z ation activities in the Hungarian National Library. Technical environment. János Káldos / NSZL. Overview. Structural background Digitisation activities Technical environment Digitization workflow. Structural background. Hungarian Electronic Library Digitization Commitee

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Digiti z ation activities in the Hungarian National Library

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  1. Digitization activities in the Hungarian National Library Technical environment János Káldos / NSZL

  2. Overview • Structural background • Digitisation activities • Technical environment • Digitization workflow

  3. Structural background • Hungarian Electronic Library • Digitization Commitee • Projects and sponsors • New period starts in 2007

  4. Hungarian Electronic Library • 1994 Initiative Plan • 1995 started the Hungarian Electronic Library (Gopher) • 1996 http://mek.iif.hu (Web server) • 1999 non-profit association • 1999 autumn – Department of National Széchényi Library • 2001 New server http://mek.oszk.hu • 2004 Started the Electronic Periodicals Archive http://epa.oszk.hu • 2004 Digital Collection Group

  5. Digitization Committee • 2004 december – started the Digitization Committee of the NSZL • Activities: • theoretical and practical support of the in-house digitization and digital object management • prepare motions for decision makers • Gets up workshops

  6. Projects and sponsors • UNESCO • MINERVA Europe, MINERVA Plus • Ministry of Culture • Ministry of Informatics and Communications • Companies, governmental and non-governmental organizations (XEROX, National Information Infrastructure Development Program; Council of Hungarian Internet Providers)

  7. New period (2007- ...) • Digital Libraries in Hungary (1999-2006) • Hungarian Electronic Library (NSZL) • John von Neumann Digital Library and Multimedia Centre (Neumann-House) http://www.neumann-haz.hu • Neumann Digital Library merges into the NSZL (Jan. 2007.)

  8. Technical environment • Capture tools • In-house • Flatbed scanners • Mikrofilm scanners (Minolta, NIKON) • NIKON D100 digital cameras (6 Mpixels) • Zeutschel OS 10000 A1 • Outsourcing • I2S Digibook 6000 RGB (Pytheas Ltd.) • Plan: a new special turn-page book scanner

  9. Technical environment • Storage system • 9 TB storage server with DLT drives and backup software • 1,4 TB server EtherDrive (for online services) • Softwares • Adobe Photoshop (CS2) • Adobe Acrobat (CS2) • Adobe Bridge (CS2) • Abbyy FineReader 7.0 – 8.0 • No workflow (DAM) software

  10. Workflow • Deposition • Ingestion • Bibliographic criteria • Full work • Identification data • Technical criteria • Digital object processing • Data processing • Storage • Services

  11. Digitization activities In-house Collection of Microfilms and Photographs Reference and Readers' Services Hungarian Electronic Library Collection of Graphics and Small Prints Collection of Early Books Collection of Theatre History Map Collection Music Collection Fragmenta Codicum, Research Group Document Supply Services Libinfo Outsourcing Arcanum Database Ltd. Pytheas Ltd.

  12. Collection activities • Voluntary depository • Hungarian Electronic Library • Legal depository • Plan: obligatory act for online digital documents • Hungarian Internet Archive (MIA)

  13. Table of digital masters (samples)

  14. Digital object processing • Versions of digital objects • Master = original, ingested, unprocessed digital object • Archive = controlled and processed digital object (rotate, cut, metadata etc.) • Derivates = for multipurpose servicies

  15. Data processing • Standards • MARC (HUNMARC) • DC (Used in services – Hungarian Electronic Library) • XMP (Adobe eXtensible Metadata Platform) (Embedded metadata) • Quality standards • Text: W3C HTML, TEI/XML • Images: TIFF, JPEG • Compound documents: PDF, DejaVu

  16. Digital Library services in NSZL • Digitised maps in OPAC (http://www.topomap.hu/oszk/hun/terkepek.htm) • Hungarian Electronic Library (http://mek.oszk.hu) • Electronic Periodical Database and Archive (EPA) (http://epa.oszk.hu) • „Illustrated historical chronologie of Hungary„ (http://www.kepido.oszk.hu) • Bibliotheca Corviniana Digitalis (http://www.corvina.oszk.hu)

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