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DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Baja, July 2010 Bucharest Metropolitan Library Ileana Serbanescu Head of Digitization Office Digital Library Department www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Bucharest Metropolitan Library, with an encyclopedic collection of about 1.500.000 documents and with 34 branches all around the capital city, is the oldest and most prominent public library in Romania. www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Beginning with 2007, Bucharest Metropolitan Library set up a program for digitizing and integrating the documents, that aims : manuscripts, early imprints and rare books from heritage collections collections of documents that form the background of community memory and history (postcards, posters, maps, microfilms, news journals, video and audio documents related to the past and the present of Bucharest, documents and bulletins published by the authorities, local communities, statistics) collections of periodical publications, newspapers and revues collections of documents with historic value documents for secondary school students, according to school bibliographies requirements

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania In December 2007, there was signed the most important partnership agreement in the entire history of libraries in Romania, between: Bucharest Metropolitan Library(the oldest and most important library in Romania) and Romanian Academy Library(keeper of the unique heritage of written Romanian culture and, consequently, the only national library of Romania) having the aim of digitizing all the national collections that define the image of Romania within cyberspace www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania From 2008 to 2010 additional partnerships were signed with: Romanian Literature Museum – for digitizing manuscripts Armenian Church Library – for digitizing manuscripts and early imprints South-Eastern European Studies Institute – for digitizing periodical publications and other documents www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania In order to achieve these objectives and to ensure both - quality of the digitized documents to the standards imposed by the European Commission on digital scanning and processing - compatibility with other libraries participating in the EUROPEANA project, MLB started a program for purchasing performing equipment and software: BML set up a professional department for the digital library and started a program for purchasing performing equipment and software - professional scanners for bounded documents and large formats computers and graphic stations - servers and equipment for storage and archiving data (using UDO, Ultra Density Optical technology) - specialized programs for digital processing, restoration of the scanned documents and OCR (such as i2S BookRestorer Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Abby Fine Reader) www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania 5 Scanners i2S CopiBook (3 RGB and 2 HD) for digitizing bound documents of formats up to DIN A2/C with optical resolution ranging from 300 dpi up to 400 dpi www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania 1 Suprascan A0 for digitizing large formats and bound documents DIN A0/E format and beyond up to 870 mm (34.2”) (h) x 1250 mm (49.2”) (w), with optical resolution ranging from 150 dpi up to 800 dpi www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Suprascan A1 II for digitizing documents, books and any type of bound works up to a maximum of DIN A1/D (2×A2), with resolution ranging from 200 dpi up to 800 dpi www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania TIFF uncompressed files are processed with professional applications Uploaded files format are for now JPG, JP2 and PDF www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania After a long and solid analysis, that took into account : the standards imposed by the international community of digital libraries, the good practice of it and compatibility with applications used by digital libraries all over the world, Bucharest Metropolitan Library chose Exlibris DigiTool digital assets management system for Dacoromanica digital library project, joining the large community of DigiTool users www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Some numbers about the project: Start massive uploading in august 2009, in order cu celebrate September 20th, a historic moment for Bucharest, the 550th anniversary since the city was first mentioned in an official written source, in 1459, by Prince Vlad Tepes (The Impaler). On September 20th 2009 we had online: • 500 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox. 350.000 pages • postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects • 10 titles, uploaded in searchable PDF format, aprox. 8.000 pages End of December 2009 we had online: 720 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox. 680.000 pages 860 postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects 110 titles, upload in searchable pdf format, aprox.65.000 pages End of June 2010, we had online: 1040 books titles, early imprints, uploaded in complex objects, aprox. 940.000 pages 860 postcards in a single itemized collection, in JP2 format and complex objects 2450 titles, upload in searchable pdf format, aprox.360.000 pages www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania • People working on this project • From August to September 2009 • 6 scanner operators in one shift • 4 librarians for restoring and digital processing output file • 3 librarians for metadata • 2 system librarians for uploading • 1 administrator • from Ex-Lh. team, a strong support and involvement into preparation and upload process • From January to June 2010, under economical restrictions: • 10 scanner operators in two shifts • 5 librarians for restoring and digital processing output file • 3 librarians for metadata • 1 system librarians for uploading • 1 administrator www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Today, DACOROMANICA contains 1.350.000 uploaded pages under 9 major collections and 110 sub-collections from 2.500.000 already scanned www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Collections structure: Early printed books - Romanian imprints between 1508 & 1830 Romanian cultural heritage , old books, in several languages, Romanian in Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, Latin, Slavonic/Slavic, Hungarian, German, Greek, Russian and Arab. Trajan's Column – the monument and era Books and in future, pictures about History of Roman Empire, Dacia and Trajan's Dacian Wars Images of Bucharest with several thematic sub-collection, available only two, Cişmigiu Garden General Romanian Exhibition from 1906 School Literature Texts according with secondary and high school mandatory bibliographies for Romanian literature. Armenian cultural heritage Early printed books - Armenian imprints between 1351 & 1830 Foreign Travelers thru Romanian land Romanian and oriental romanity history www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Early printed books - Romanian imprints between 1508 & 1830 Collection 1069 objects online Uploaded as complex objects, showing, page by page, in facsimile, the original photographic images faithfully reproduced. www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Early printed books - Armenian imprints between 1351 & 1830 Collection Uploaded as complex objects, showing, page by page, in facsimile, the original photographic images faithfully reproduced. www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Romanian and oriental romanity history Collection – 82 objects online Uploaded as searchable PDF files, reduced size, for faster display www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania School Literature Collection – 2322 objects online Uploaded as searchable PDF files, reduced size, for faster display www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Bucharest in images Collection - 124 objects online JP2 file format for higher quality display www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania DACOROMANICA use for now only Dublin Core Metadata Scheme www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania Challenges and unresolved issues while learning and working with DigiTool: Uploading and managing large files in PDF format Linking volumes Provide metadata for separate items linked in a single complex object Managing XML files and METS thru Meditor Handling different manifestations for the same title ……. www.dacoromanica.ro

BUCHAREST METROPOLITAN LIBRARY DACOROMANICA Digital Library of Romania For this year, DACOROMANICA goals are: Uploading 1.000.000 pages Uploading old periodical publications Uploading mp3 files from digitized old vinyl discs www.dacoromanica.ro

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