Slide1 : The Digitization Centre at Goettingen State and University Library
Andrea Rapp
rapp@sub.uni-goettingen.de
Goettingen State and University Library
www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/GDZ
Slide2 : Table of Content Brief introduction: Library Context
Brief Introduction: Goettingen Digitization Centre in general
Projects – Examples
Travel Literature, North-Americana
Mathematica
Early Zoological Literature Online
Gutenberg Bible
Slide3 : 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
Slide4 : 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
Slide5 : 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
Slide6 : 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
Slide7 : 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
Slide8 : TIFF-Header: allows exact identification of each image – even if folder structures are destroyed Bibliographical Metadata: for presentation and retrieval
PPN = Pica
Production Number =
Identifier
Slide9 : Structural Metadata
Aim is to offer an electronic table of contents
with direct links to the digitized works and a user-friendly navigation
Slide10 : Union Library Catalogue
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Slide12 : Metadata: Search mechanisms and navigation
Slide13 : Navigation
Slide14 : Document-Management-System
AGORA: developed together with Satz-Rechen- Zentrum Berlin Relational database driven for import and export
For access, searching and navigation
Slide15 : Projects (examples)
Creating digital content together with new
technical features
Travel Literature, North-Americana
Mathematica
Early Zoological Literature Online
Gutenberg Bible
Slide16 : Travel Literature and Early Northamericana
Special Subject Collection SUB
Anglo-american Language and Literature
Very extensive bookholdings / records
Starting point for the GDZ
Experience in Digitization of historic
and rare books
Development of Document model
Development of Documentmanagementsystem
(AGORA)
Development of Scan Software (ProScan Book)
Slide17 : 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
Slide18 : Mathematica at Goettingen
Long Tradition at Goettingen University:
e.g. Carl Friedrich Gauss
David Hilbert
Emmy Noether
Digital Collection ‚Mathematica‘ at SUB / GDZ
largest collection: about 800.000 pages
online
Monographs
Multivolume works
Journals
Mathematica : 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
Slide20 : Mathematica
Slide21 : Mathematica
Slide22 : 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
Slide23 : Zoological database: www.animalbase.de
Role model:
FishBase Chance:
All species:
10.000.000 1. phase: all species described until 1770 (about 10.000)
Slide24 : 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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Slide26 : 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
Slide27 : 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)
Slide28 : 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
Slide29 : Goettingen Gutenbergbible (B42, ca. 1454 )
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Slide32 : 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
Slide33 : Thank you very much for your attention!
Questions?
Andrea Rapp
rapp@sub.uni-goettingen.de
Goettingen State and University Library
www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/GDZ