A service? An Architecture?

Third-generation digital library

• focusing instead on fully integrating digital material into the library’s collections through a modular systems architecture.

• Hardware

• The minimum machinery to do the job

• Software

• The programs for handling data

• Digital Objects

• Articles, Conference Papers, Thesis,……

• Basic Skills

• Things one has to learn

A Server

• A Server

• You’ll need access to a web server

• A good PC

• Scanners

• Flatbed – Auto feed, Back to back

• MF

• Book Scanner

Open Source Software (OSS)

• Open Source Software (OSS)

• Dspace, E-Prints, Fedora, GSDL……

• Proprietary software you can’t avoid

• Image Editing and Optical Character Recognition Software have to be purchased

Six steps

• Six steps

• Selecting
• Acquiring
• Digitization
• Creation Of Meta Data
• Organizing
• Archiving
• Providing Access

Pure image formats: TIFF, JPEG

• Pure image formats: TIFF, JPEG

• Open encoded formats: XML, HTML, ASCII, and Unicode

• Hybrid formats: PDF, DjVu – can contain both image and text

• Proprietary formats: Microsoft Word, WordPerfect

Copyright

• Copyright

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