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Kristīne Pabērza Ministry of Culture State Agency “Culture Information Systems” Latvia Member States' Expert Group on Digitization and Digital Preservation 2nd meeting 13 December 2007 1
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Kristīne PabērzaMinistry of Culture
State Agency “Culture Information Systems”Latvia
Member States' Expert Group on Digitization and Digital Preservation2nd meeting 13 December 2007 1
Main Cultural Policy Postulates of Latvia (1995)
National Programme “Culture” 2000-2010
Long Term Cultural Policy Guidelines 2006-2015
Medium Term Strategy 2006-2008
Guidelines for Unified Information System of Culture Heritage and Memory Institutions 2005-2012
Strategy of the National Digital Library “Letonica”
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CIS operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture
Main task of CIS – to preserve and provide public availability of the information sources and cultural values stored in archives, libraries and museums
CIS is administering and implementing projects in the culture and memory institutions
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State Integrated Library Information System
State Archives Unified Information System
Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums
Library Public Access Computing Program
Digital Cultural Map www.kulturaskarte.lv
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Purpose program “Cooperation of Archives, Museums and Libraries in Digital Environment” (2003-2005)
Private partners: Exigen Group (software for retro-conversion) Lursoft (access to digital Cabinet of Folk
songs) Tilde (“History of Latvia”, e-encyclopedia
“Letonica” IT Alise (solutions for ALMs)
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The goal of the project = to create unified online database of Latvian national bibliography by converting printed indexes and card catalogue
Period of time = starting from 18th century till 2000
Scope = 136 000 pages / 2,5 million records
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1999: Conception
2000: Financial support from the Open Society Institute in Budapest
2000: special software developed by Exigen Group in close cooperation with the National Library of Latvia (for printed bibliographic indexes)
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2001-2002: financial support from Purpose program “Cooperation of Archives, Museums and Libraries in Digital Environment”
2001: software updates
2003 onwards: financial support from the budget of the State Integrated Library Information System
2006-2007: software for card catalogue
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Main benefits from results of partnership:
Software allows to manage full cycle starting from scanning till structured MARC record and export into online database
Comparing to manual work use of software allows to reduce time for conversion 6 times and to save up required financial resources 4 times
Partnership between the National Library of Latvia, company Lursoft IT and state agency “Culture information systems”
Main goal = to provide an online access to the full texts of newspapers, magazines and journals while searching in the National Analytics database (NAD)
Latvia publishes ~600 serials annually, and 2/3 of them are catalogued in NAD
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Company IT Lursoft (www.news.lv) provides a digital library of newspapers which:
offers access to more than 40 serials and reviews of press agencies
facilitates reading of full texts provides connection with the linked
information in the databases of enterprises and other official registers by the same interface
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In May 2005 Lursoft IT started the automated delivery of electronic descriptions
These metadata are daily extracted automatically from the newespaper lay-outs delivered to Lursoft IT by publishers
The descriptions for current day periodicals are delivered till 3 a.m. daily
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Authorized NLL staff members have the right to: include these descriptions into the National Analytics
database enrich the received information according to the
requirements of MARC21
The database of the National Analytics is located on NLL server, but the full texts – on Lursoft IT server.
CIS provides an import of daily-received files into the system Aleph500.
The linkage of the National Analytics database record with the respective full text is performed using the unique identification
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Publishing, metadata and access provided at the same day
NLL receives extracted metadata of current day e-articles
Quality of records improves – grammar errors that could occur re-writing title or author manually are eliminated
Publishers get reliable statistical data on the most frequently accessed articles and authors
Publishers and Lursoft IT attract new users Users can easily switch from the full text of the
article to the linked information
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Till 2006: various dispersed projects; different technologies; minimal use of metadata
From 2006: Latvian Digital Library “Letonica” – unified platform; common standards; Digital Object Management System; partnership and collaboration; long-term preservation and accessibility with respect to copyright
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1. Digitization of national culture heritage in all memory institutions
2. Web harvesting
3. Conversion of required card catalogue into databases
4. Repository of digital publications
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Partners: National Library of Latvia State Agency “Culture Information Systems” Microsoft Latvia
Pilot project “Jāzeps Vītols” National Library of Latvia Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music Centre of Early Music Latvian Academic Library Latvian State Archive of Film, Photo, Audiovisual
Documents Individuals (professors etc.) a.o.
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Project “Raduraksti”: Latvia State Historical Archives Central Microphotocopying and Document
Restoration Laboratory Directorate General of Latvia State Archives
Main goal – to create and support resources available for genealogical and family research
Currently 1215674 images available
From December 4th – more than 10 000 users
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Municipal museums
State museums
Private museums
Joint Catalogue of theNational Holdings of
museums
Schools, scientists, tourists etc.
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5%
95%
other museum objects exhibited museum objects
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1%
60%
39%
State Museums Municipal museums Private Museums
About 5,1 million museum objects
Growth – 100 000 museum objects per year
State Unified Library Information System
Library Public Access Computing Program
National Digital Library “Letonica”
Joint Catalogue of the National Holdings of Museums
Unified State Archives Information System
Management System for Development of Creative Industry and Cultural Education
Latvian Digital Culture Map
Latvian National Digital Encyclopaedia
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