Digitization activities in the Hungarian National Library

Technical environment

János Káldos / NSZL

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Overview

Structural background Digitisation activities Technical environment Digitization workflow

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Structural background

Hungarian Electronic Library Digitization Commitee Projects and sponsors New period starts in 2007

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Hungarian Electronic Library

1994 Initiative Plan 1995 started the Hungarian

Electronic Library (Gopher) 1996 http://mek.iif.hu (Web

server) 1999 non-profit association 1999 autumn – Department of

National Széchényi Library 2001 New server

http://mek.oszk.hu 2004 Started the Electronic

Periodicals Archive http://epa.oszk.hu

2004 Digital Collection Group

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Digitization Committee

2004 december – started the Digitization Committee of the NSZL

Activities:– theoretical and practical support of the in-

house digitization and digital object management

– prepare motions for decision makers– Gets up workshops

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Projects and sponsors

UNESCO MINERVA Europe, MINERVA Plus Ministry of Culture Ministry of Informatics and Communications Companies, governmental and non-

governmental organizations (XEROX, National Information Infrastructure Development Program; Council of Hungarian Internet Providers)

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New period (2007- ...)

Digital Libraries in Hungary (1999-2006)– Hungarian Electronic Library

(NSZL)– John von Neumann Digital

Library and Multimedia Centre (Neumann-House) http://www.neumann-haz.hu

Neumann Digital Library merges into the NSZL (Jan. 2007.)

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Technical environment

Capture tools– In-house

Flatbed scanners Mikrofilm scanners (Minolta,

NIKON) NIKON D100 digital cameras

(6 Mpixels) Zeutschel OS 10000 A1

– Outsourcing I2S Digibook 6000 RGB

(Pytheas Ltd.)

– Plan: a new special turn-page book scanner

János Káldos – National Széchényi Library / Hungary DoD Technical meeting / München / 9-10. Nov. 2006.

Technical environment

Storage system– 9 TB storage server with DLT drives and backup

software– 1,4 TB server EtherDrive (for online services)

Softwares– Adobe Photoshop (CS2)– Adobe Acrobat (CS2)– Adobe Bridge (CS2)– Abbyy FineReader 7.0 – 8.0– No workflow (DAM) software

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Workflow

Deposition Ingestion

– Bibliographic criteria Full work Identification data Technical criteria

Digital object processing Data processing Storage Services

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Digitization activities

In-houseCollection of Microfilms and Photographs Reference and Readers' ServicesHungarian Electronic LibraryCollection of Graphics and Small Prints Collection of Early Books Collection of Theatre History Map Collection Music CollectionFragmenta Codicum, Research GroupDocument Supply ServicesLibinfo

OutsourcingArcanum Database Ltd.Pytheas Ltd.

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Collection activities

Voluntary depository– Hungarian Electronic Library

Legal depository– Plan: obligatory act for online digital

documents

Hungarian Internet Archive (MIA)

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Table of digital masters (samples)

Type Master image

Books 100000

Manuscripts 50000

Maps 2500

Music manuscripts 80000

Historical newspaper 400000

Graphics and small prints (obituary notes – 600.000)

620000

Free Europe Radio (1956)

300000

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Digital object processing

Versions of digital objects– Master = original, ingested, unprocessed

digital object– Archive = controlled and processed digital

object (rotate, cut, metadata etc.)– Derivates = for multipurpose servicies

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Data processing

Standards– MARC (HUNMARC)– DC (Used in services – Hungarian Electronic

Library)– XMP (Adobe eXtensible Metadata Platform)

(Embedded metadata)

Quality standards– Text: W3C HTML, TEI/XML– Images: TIFF, JPEG– Compound documents: PDF, DejaVu

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Digital Library services in NSZL

Digitised maps in OPAC (http://www.topomap.hu/oszk/hun/terkepek.htm)

Hungarian Electronic Library (http://mek.oszk.hu) Electronic Periodical Database and Archive (EPA)

(http://epa.oszk.hu) „Illustrated historical chronologie of Hungary„ (

http://www.kepido.oszk.hu) Bibliotheca Corviniana Digitalis (

http://www.corvina.oszk.hu)