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ARCHIVE IMAGING SEARCHABLE VIA THE WEBPAC

ARCHIVE IMAGING SEARCHABLE VIA THE WEBPAC. Marthie de Kock The Hong Kong Institute of Education 9 December 2002. Education Imaging System ( EdIS ). Hong Kong Institute of Education Library. Points for discussion. Scope and functions EdIS Phase I EdIS Phase II Background

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ARCHIVE IMAGING SEARCHABLE VIA THE WEBPAC

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  1. ARCHIVE IMAGING SEARCHABLE VIA THE WEBPAC Marthie de Kock The Hong Kong Institute of Education 9 December 2002

  2. Education Imaging System(EdIS) Hong Kong Institute of Education Library

  3. Points for discussion • Scope and functions • EdIS Phase I • EdIS Phase II • Background • Different document classes • Data retrieval & searching • INNOPAC and the Z server

  4. Scope • Provide a sophisticated system to manage the growing electronic media including text, black & white scanned images, colour photos, audio, video and multimedia presentations available to and in HKIEd library. • Provide an effective web interface to retrieve on-line digitised materials.

  5. System Functions • Capture of content, storage & management • Scanning & OCR • Supports both English and Chinese indexing and full text searching

  6. Background First Digital Library initiatives of HKIed Library • Joint project between IBM & Library with technical support by ITS • July 1997 - signed contract with IBM and it’s Digital Library • June 23 1998 - the system was launched

  7. Search Interface of EdIS > The Main Screen

  8. Contents of EdIS Phase I Four Document Types Document typesDigitised items Newspaper clippings Image scanning & OCR Examination papers Image scanning & OCR Curriculum materials Multimedia objects Student Projects Multimedia objects

  9. Document Types:News Clippings & Exam Papers • News clippings: • Past newspaper clippings • scanning, OCR, indexing • Wiser News indexing & CMC operations • Exam Papers: • Departments • scanning, OCR, indexing

  10. Document Types:Curriculums & Student Projects • Digitising procedures included: • Content Analysis • Categorise multimedia objects • Write a summary • Digitise materials, saving files with logical file names, web page design & preparing scripts for uploading • Upload documents & testing

  11. Basic Search Screen of Curriculum Materials

  12. Search results screen of [Title = dance]

  13. Selected the target page from the hit-list.

  14. EdIS Phase II • Include Archive materials • Improve multimedia searching • Search Archive materials via INNOPAC • No response – IBM’s DL and CMC • June 2001 new Tender specifications • Vitova

  15. EdIS Phase II Development • Customise system • Project development – July 2001 • Z server • System delivered – April 2002 • Interface – uploading of Wiser news

  16. System Architecture Three subsystems: • Client subsystem • The front-end PC workstations with Netscape or Microsoft web browser are available for record retrieval and viewing. • Capturing Subsystems • Used for content preparation (scanning OCR and indexing) • Server Subsystem • The production server - stores records and manages the systems operations

  17. Configuration • Hardware: • SUN Enterprise 250 server • 36 GB data storage space • Configured as RAID 0 (disk mirror) • Operating Software: • ORACLE Database 8i for SUN Sparc Solaris Unix 2.7 Z39.50 server for document searching

  18. Hardware and software • Application software • VitalDoc Document Imaging system - 40 user license • Two VitalScan licenses for desktop Scanning and OCR • Chinese OCR - TsingHau Wintone ver. 8.0

  19. Other hardware • Two scanning/OCR workstations • MinoltaPS7000 Scanner • Ricoh IS330DC DF and Flatbed scanner

  20. Typical Searching Procedure Select Class/Database Enter Searching Criteria Browsing Hit List Review History New Search View Result/Content

  21. Future? End

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