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The Digitization Centre at Goettingen State and

University Library

Andrea Rapprapp@sub.uni-goettingen.de

Goettingen State and University Librarywww.sub.uni-goettingen.de/GDZ

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Table of Content

Brief introduction: Library ContextBrief Introduction: Goettingen Digitization Centre in generalProjects – Examples

• Travel Literature, North-Americana• Mathematica • Early Zoological Literature Online • Gutenberg Bible

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Goettingen Digitization Centre

Department of the Goettingen State and University Library

Founded in 1997 and for 4 years funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)

National and international support and service-centre for (retro-)digitization

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The Goettingen Digitization Centre

Co-ordinating national efforts towards standardization

Testing and providing tools and techniques for image capture and text conversion, bibliographic description, document management, and the provision of online access to digital collections

Building up professional responsibility concerning the whole digitization process (methodical and technical) within the library department

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Main activities of the GDZ

• Make available printed material in a user friendly way via WWW

• Rare and unique records, e.g. rara, incunabula and manuscripts

• Mass-digitization, e.g. science journals

• Service for projects, academic institutions and publishers: production of digital images

• Integration of special research aspects

• About 2 million pages on the GDZ server available

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Bibliographical and Structural Metadata

• Format: RDF/XML (Ressource Description Framework/eXtensible Markup Language)

• Migration to METS (Metadata and Transmission Standard): more detailed and more flexible

• Storage and access with document-management-system

• Standards • Interoperability• Long term preservation

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Online Library Catalogue

Necessary for acceptance of the digital library

For the GDZ - first step of the whole digitization process

PICA-production-number as identifier of the digitized work

Direct link: GBV union catalogue or local OPAC to the GDZ-document-server via http-protocol

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TIFF-Header: allows exact identification of each image – even if folder structures are destroyed

Bibliographical Metadata: for presentation and retrieval PPN = PicaProduction Number = Identifier

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Structural Metadata

Aim is to offer an electronic table of contents with direct links to the digitized works and a user-friendly navigation

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Union Library Catalogue

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Metadata: Search mechanisms and navigation

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Navigation

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Document-Management-System

AGORA: developed together with Satz-Rechen- Zentrum Berlin

Relational database driven for import and export

For access, searching and navigation

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Projects (examples)

• Creating digital content together with new technical features

• Travel Literature, North-Americana

• Mathematica

• Early Zoological Literature Online

• Gutenberg Bible

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Travel Literature and Early Northamericana

• Special Subject Collection SUBAnglo-american Language and Literature Very extensive bookholdings / records

• Starting point for the GDZExperience in Digitization of historicand rare books Development of Document model Development of Documentmanagementsystem

(AGORA)Development of Scan Software (ProScan Book)

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Technical Informations

Image capturing: text material in 600 dpi, 1bit as TIFF ITU Group 4 format, illustrations up to 8bit grayscale with Zeutschel Omniscan 7000

book-cradle

glass-plate

scanning-head

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Mathematica at Goettingen

• Long Tradition at Goettingen University:e.g. Carl Friedrich Gauss David Hilbert Emmy Noether

• Digital Collection ‚Mathematica‘ at SUB / GDZlargest collection: about 800.000 pages onlineMonographsMultivolume works Journals

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Expanded document model

• Scientific journals • Scientific literature 20th century

• Co-operation with Prof. Wegner, Berlin, Editor in Chief of ‚Zentralblatt für Mathematik‘ (reference journal)

• Database: Zentralblatt and ‚Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik‘ (two central reference journals): searchable

• Interlinking of ‚Jahrbuch database‘ and GDZ document server with the retrodigitized referenced articles

Mathematica

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Mathematica

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Mathematica

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Early Zoological Literature Online

Cooperation with the Institute for Zoology at Goettingen University, Prof. Rainer Willmann

Fulltext digitization of Carl von Linnés base reference work of zoological nomenclature

Linking with descriptions and literature he quoted

Building up a zoological database, important for the recent research in the field of

biodiversity

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Zoological database: www.animalbase.de

Role model: FishBase

Chance:All species:10.000.000

1. phase: all species described until 1770 (about 10.000)

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Technical informations

Image capturing: colour images with i2s digiBook,

400 dpi (2 x A2) to 700 dpi (2 x A4)

book-cradle

glass-plate was especially developed for the needs of the GDZ

scanhead: goes in two directions, very fast scanning

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High Quality Colour Digitization

• Goettingen Gutenberg Bible (B42, about 1454 )

One of the four extant completely preserved copies on vellum

Available freely on the Internet and on CD-ROM (Saur Publishing House)

www.gutenbergdigital.de

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Special workspace for manuscripts and fragile materials

Book cradle; prototype developed at University Library of Graz

camera

book-cradle

suction bar

an analogue camera with digital scan-back: Anagram PictureGate 8000, resolution up to 9700 x 8000 (ca. 400 MB per pageimage)

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High Quality Colour Digitization

• Goettingen Gutenberg Bible (B42, about 1454 )

One of the four extant completely preserved copies on vellum

Goettingen Model Book: Comparing illuminations

Helmasperger‘s Notarial Instrument (6.11.1455):legal document

Digitized, scholarly annotated and interlinked

Available freely on the Internet and on CD-ROM (Saur Publishing House)

www.gutenbergdigital.de

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Goettingen Gutenbergbible (B42, ca. 1454 )

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Providing high quality and user friendly access to important and rare material of the library

Providing access to a huge amount of digital material to increase the acceptance of the digital library

To develop a coherent graphical user interface for all collections

To make all materials, which are copyright free, freely available on the web

Searchable not only with our own document server but with union catalogue and OPAC

Access according to the needs of users (metadata, structural data)

Cooperations with other institutions, libraries and scholars worldwide to build up the Distributed Digital Research Library

Conclusion - Aims and policies

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Thank you very much for your attention!

Questions?

Andrea Rapprapp@sub.uni-goettingen.de

Goettingen State and University Librarywww.sub.uni-goettingen.de/GDZ