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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
