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VALA2010 Session 15 Jilovsky

VALA20120Digitise this: converting content

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 15 – Digitisation/Publishing
Thursday 11 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-15-jilovsky

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperCathie Jilovsky

Chief Information Officer, CAVAL Ltd
http://www.caval.edu.au

George Panagiotidis

Lead, Digital Services, CAVAL Ltd
http://www.caval.edu.au

Janette Wright

CEO, CAVAL Ltd
http://www.caval.edu.au

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Abstract

This paper describes and illustrates the new processes that CAVAL is using to convert content into digital form. The research and development process began with the purchase of a Kirtas 2400 RA Book Digitising device in 2008. This page-turning device now underpins the provision of high quality digitisation services for books and bound volumes. Issues discussed include image enhancement, file format options, differing criteria for preservation and digitisation and the potential integration of complementary services such as metadata harvesting and copyright permissions management. More recently a facility to digitise large format newspapers and maps has been developed. Much of the digitised content created has now been made available via the web providing access to full-text searchable information that was previously almost impossible to find and access.

VALA2006 Session 14 Laurie

VALA2006Reviving the past: the Early New Zealand Books Online Project at the University of Auckland Library

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Digitisation and Managing Digital Objects
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:35 – 15:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-14-laurie

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperJohn Laurie

Subject Librarian, Anthropology, Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland Library
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz

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Abstract

The aim of the ENZB project at the University of Auckland Library is to provide a corpus of significant material published about New Zealand in the first two thirds of the 19th century. This paper looks at design parameters for the database and technical processes used to convert printed text and images to electronic format for presentation on the web. The ENZB is an in-house project using FineReader 7 OCR software to produce TEI-compliant XML files. b-engine software produces HTML for the web and links text to images of the original pages.

 

VALA2006 Session 14 McGrath

VALA2006

Heritage Map Digitisation: An adventure in applying aspects of Digital Preservation Policy

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 14: Digitisation and Managing Digital Objects
Friday 10 February 2006, 14:00 – 14:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-14-mcgrath

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPeter McGrath

Digital Preservation Specialist, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

Shirley Firth

Image Resources Manager, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

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Abstract

This paper discusses some of the key principles of the State Library of Victoria’s recently released Digital Preservation Policy and how these were applied to a heritage map digitisation project, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Maps Digitising Project. Principles discussed include image capture standards, image metadata, storage and media. The project presented many challenges and twists and turns along the way- a surprising adventure for the project team.

 

VALA2006 Plenary 3 Balakrishnan

VALA2006 Keynote SpeakerUniversal Digital Library – connecting users to digital contents

Narayanaswamy BalakrishnanVALA 2008 PLENARY 3: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Thursday 9 February 2006, 09:00 – 10:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-plenary-3-balakrishnan

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science
http://www.iisc.ernet.in

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Abstract

The Universal Digital Library epitomises international collaboration with partners from USA, China, Egypt and Australia spanning academia, Government and religious institutions as stakeholders. Nearly 600,000 books have been scanned so far and most of them are available for free browsing.

Discuss the Indian Language Technology Research that was stimulated by the vast information base made available by the UDL project. The efforts to connect the users to content using mobile vans, Internet based dissemination and the personalised Digital collections are compared. The talk concludes with the discussion on the issue of copyright and presents a novel idea of a “Consortium for Compensating for Creating Contents” – the FourCs.