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Baton Rouge Digital Obituaries
Dominic Bordelon and Adam St.Pierre
Introduction Based upon The Advocate Obituary
Index
Obtained obituaries from microfilm to make full-text searchable records
Could be expounded upon for genealogical researchers
Organization Content is structured around the
image of the obituary itself with relevant metadataoMetadata with Dublin Core Elements• Title (Matching the title of the obituary)• Subject (subject of the obituary including birth
and death dates)• Date (of printing)• Description (full-text of obituary)• Format (image file format)
Digitization A Scanpro 2000 was utilized for PDF
creation from microfilm reels• OCR was not available with the Scanpro
software
Scanpro allowed for some contrast, brightness, and grayscale adjustment
Digitization PDF files were
imported to Photoshop for careful adjustment
Access images were created at 72 ppi as JPEGs
CONTENTdm JPEGs were put into the Project Client
and DC metadata was added
Our planned refinements of the date and relation properties were not allowed despite the possibility of adding fields
Finished Product
Copyright Issues For the purpose of this project
sources contacted stated this was fair use
Many of the obituaries are now defunct
If EBRPL decides to continue this project however a lawyer must be contacted
Conclusion We gained a practical understanding
of the a digitization project
Coped with technical and copyright issues
And provided a path for the continuation of this digitization effort