potsdam30 sept2011

Digital Services

Saskia van Bergen30 september 2011

Leiden UL catalogue (aleph)

http://catalogus.leidenuniv.nl/

Digital Special Collections (DISC) for images + services

http://disc.leidenuniv.nl

Digitisation projects• Project-based• Large-scale• External funding (e.g.

Metamorfoze)• Outsourced• (Collaborative)

Digitisation of special collections at UBL:

In-house digitisation• Small scale• By facility services• Photography and

flatbed scanner• Reproductions for

Clients• And for own use

(exhibitions, Snapshots etc.)

Example of digitisation project: Collection Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

(1857-1936) , professor of Arabic

Very large-scale: 1.100 ms, 10.000 printed books, 6.000 letters, ? meters archival materials etc.

Several subprojects 2007- Funded by National programme

Metamorfoze

http://www.metamorfoze.nl/

Example of collaborative project

Leiden UL, Amsterdam UL, KB Funded by the Dutch

Government 10.000 books 1781-1800 +OCR 2 m. pages

http://www.earlydutchbooksonline.nl/

Current and upcoming projects

Digitisation on demand service

In-house digitisation

• Small scale• By facility services • Photography and

flatbed scanner• Reproductions for

Clients• And for own use

(exhibitions, Snapshots etc.)

Digitisation-on-demand service

• Small scale digitisation• By library staff • Zeutschel scanner + one-

shot camera + Graz bookcradle

• Digitised materials in DISC (easy access)

• Free viewing, payed TIFF images

• Better service (faster, reasonable prices)

• Streamlined workflow, clear procedures

Streamlined workflow, clear procedures

• Well-trained staff (e.g. criteria for accepting and rejecting a request; which equipment can be used when? )

• Guidelines voor scanning & photography • Quality specs (which quality for archiving,

viewing, delivery?)• Quality control• What are you scanning and when do you

keep the scans?

Current and upcoming projects

Digitisation on demand serviceBetter services for special collections →3-stage rocket

3-stage rocket:

1. Discovery layer (PRIMO)• One point of access: Special

Collections better findable2. Migrate descriptive metadata

DISC vs. Aleph catalogue

Images, EAD, web exhibitions etc.

Bibliographic, administrative information

3-stage rocket:

1. Discovery layer (PRIMO)• One point of access: Special

Collections better findable2. Migrate descriptive metadata3. Online requesting service

Current and upcoming projects

Digitisation on demand serviceBetter services for special collections →3-stage rocket

Get all the scans in DISC (18.6 TB) → METS uploader

Thank you!

w.van.bergen@library.leidenuniv.nlhttp://nl.linkedin.com/in/

saskiavanbergen