DELIVERABLE 2.2 Geodatabase Activities 2.2 and 2.3 DELIVERABLE 2.3
2.3 Digital Preservation Activities
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IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
2.3 Digital Preservation Activities
36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers4-5 October 2012, Vienna, Austria
Germain St-PierreDigital Preservation Technician
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Our Main Tasks
1. Process new incoming NCL2. Digitization of INIS Microfiche Collection3. Digitization of out of print IAEA Publications
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1. NCL Processing in 2012
• 10,512 new NCL available from INIS (Vol. 43/01 to 43/39)
• From 48 countries or organizations• Full-Texts contained in 7,678 PDF files
• Input mostly in PDF => Quality Control (QC)• NCL input in hard copy => Full Digitization(Digitization = Scanning + Image Enhancement + OCR +
PDF output + QC)
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2. Microfiche Digitization Project
Started in 2003• Digitize the INIS microfiche collection• Improve on-line access to full-texts • Ensure long-term preservation of the digital
collection• Done in close collaboration with INIS
Member States to prevent duplication of digitization efforts
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Microfiche Collection
• INIS Volume 1 to 27 (1970-1996)• All NCL distributed on microfiche• Whole collection:
• 312,000 NCL reports• Over 1,000,000 physical microfiches• 500,000 NCL bibliographic records• Estimated 17 million pages
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MF Digitization Project – 2012 only
• Jan – July 2012 (Progress and Activity Report) :• 20,434 PDF files added from digitized
microfiches• Over 843,000 pages of full-texts
• August – September 2012:• 4,250 more PDF files added from
digitized microfiches• Over 266,000 pages of full-texts
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MF Digitization Project – Status
• Since 2003:• 279,427 PDF files from digitized
microfiches• Over 13,7 million pages of full-
texts• 340 GB of data• 81% of the MF collection has been
digitized (Status 2012-09-25)
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Microfiche Digitization Statistics
Year Full-Texts from MF Digitized Pages Size in GBBefore 2004 566 49 574 3.7
2004 19 960 1 324 778 36.52005 36 935 1 577 365 32.12006 23 163 1 367 637 33.32007 9 313 668 769 16.32008 25 675 1 228 057 29.72009 81 223 3 940 250 77.32010 33 881 1 969 112 45.92011 24 027 511 997 16.2
2012 *) 24 684 1 109 598 49.7 Total: 279 427 13 747 137 340.8
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Cumulative Full-Texts from Microfiche
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000 279,427 PDF *)
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Digitized Pages from Microfiche
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
4,000,000
1,109,598 *)
*) Status 2012-09-25
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Our Tools
• Scanning and Image Enhancement• PixEdit 7
• OCR• ABBYY FineReader 11
• NCL Collection Management System• Developed by SDSG• Very useful Reporting Tool• Over 466,000 full-texts
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3. Other Digitization Projects
• Completed projects:• IAEA Bulletin• IAEA General Conference• INDC• IAEA Technical Reports Series (TRS)
• On-going projects:• Out of Print IAEA Publications
• Proceedings Series• Safety Series (IAEA/NS)
• Photo Archival Project
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What comes next?
• Maintain and add value to the existing Digital Collection by:• Reprocessing (OCR) scanned images• Splitting PDF files to create 1 PDF file for each
analytic record
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For More Information
• For more details on the history of our activity and our technical infrastructure over the years, see:• Newsletter No. 13 September 2012
(available from INIS Members Area on the Web)
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Thank you!