DIGITIZATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

CENTER FOR JEWISH ART

HEBREW UNIVERSITY

EVA / MINERVA 2013 Jerusalem

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Dantec and the Judaica Division 2

Dantec and the Judaica Division 3

Dantec was founded in 1986

Dantec is the vendor that executes Judaica digitization and meta data projects on behalf of Harvard’s Judaica division

Examples of projects:

Kol Israel – Rashut Hashidur

Central Zionist Archive (CZA)

Galil Project - Beit Yigal Alon

Jewish National Found (JNF)

and more

CJA Digitization Project 4

Project Overview 5

Joint Project of:

Center for Jewish Art

National Library of Israel

Harvard University (via Dantec)

Volumes:

Initial estimation ~180,000 items

To date ~ 201, 000 items (Jan-Aug 2013)

Still to be digitized ~ 35,000 items (pending CJA)

Project Scope 6

Raw material

Verity of Medias

Items’ storage & distribution

Negatives >>, Slides,

Photos, Blueprints,

Information sheets >>,

Research papers >>

Folders, Boxes,

Envelops, CDs

distributed in

many locations

Documented by

many researches

along many years,

using different

documentation

methods

Unified Objects

What is an Object? 7

An object is a library of items

that belong to same topic

Scanning accompanied by

technical excel

Allows effective documentation

process

Special sorting software

program sorts the scanned items

to the relevant object library

Scanning

Technical Documentation

Sort to objects

TIF,

JPG

Excel

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Project status in Harvard 8

~42,000 images already loaded to Harvard’s

system

The data will be loaded to Alef system in the

coming days

Thank You 9

Negative 10

Information Sheets 11

Research Papers 12