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Open Past: Digital Projects from Government Libraries
Finance CanadaStatistics CanadaLibrary of Parliament
June 1, 2012
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Overview
Introductions
Finance Canada
Statistics Canada
Library of Parliament
Questions
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Finance CanadaDigitizing the Federal BudgetEileen Bays-CouttsIona HendersonJune 1, 2012
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Library Digitization Goals To increase Web access to and discoverability of
federal budget publications
To address service delivery issues
Pilot: To assess digitization, repository, and metadata requirements.
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Pilot Phase March 2010, digitized the 1952 to 1994 Speech,
Plan, and Budget in Brief publications.
Used in-house photocopier and casual staff.
Publications scanned to PDF and files optimized using Adobe Acrobat Pro OCR and tagging processes.
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Pilot Continued
Sample of OCR coding errors underlying PDFs:
I am honoured, Madam Speaker, to have the opportunity to present to Parliament the first b6'dget of this new decade. It is a bUdget which sets newdirections for the economy~directions which willensure both energy securityand economic securit'y for Canadians in the years ahead.It would b~ no service to this House, nor to Qanadians, to deny that there is adeeply troubling air of uncertainty and anxiety around the world and, I am sure, in the hearts and minds of Canadians; we have inherited many difficulties fromthe decade of the 70s. But It would be just as wrong to deny that the decade ofthe 80s provides extraordinary oppo.rtunities for Canada and Canadians.
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Pilot Continued
Results:• Low cost • Crawlable and searchable files• 3% to 5% OCR error rate.
Conclusion – error rate unacceptable.
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Project Phase Goal to produce CLF2 compliant, 99.5%
error-free OCR text
Work competitively outsourced in 2010/11 to Terra Reproductions
Same scope as Pilot phase.
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Project Continued
Full specs were provided to the company including generic metadata; metadata to be enhanced later.
Results:• error rate of 0.5% or lower• But discovered some gaps
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Getting to the Web• Add: 1968 to 1994• Enhance user experience
2007 to 2012 budget.gc.ca
1995 to 2006 fin.gc.ca
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Inspiration
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Getting to the Web Continued
Additional metadata added to files Prime Minister Finance Minister Parliament number Political party
Became our filtering criteria + the year
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Getting to the Web Continued
JQuery used for sorting functionality
Some browser issues with display so custom style sheets developed
Clean up of 1995 – 1999 PDFs on FIN
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Final Product!
www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/index-eng.html
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Going Forward Fill gaps in collections
Enhance metadata
Improve layout and functionality
Add additional PDF documents from years 1994 – 2011
Improve accessibility of PDFs
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Thank you
http://www.budget.gc.ca/pdfarch/index-eng.html