Shachar Beer and Mary Haberle AJDC: The digitisation of the American Joint Distribution Committee Archive
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Presentation at the EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture,
Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il
1. Digitization of the JDC Archives
Shachar Beer, Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives
Mary Haberle, Digitization Project Manager, JDC Global Archives
2. Presentation Overview
1. Institutional Context for Digitization
2. Goals of Digitization
3. Scope of Digitization
4. Digitization Program Workflow
5. Quality Assurance Tools
6. Partnership with Judaica Europeana
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
11. Scope of Digitization at JDC
Textual Collections
o Digitized material spans 1914 to 1989
o Grant 1: 1.8 million pages
o Grant 2: 600,000 pages
Names Index
o Transmission Bureau records and other lists of
genealogical value
o ~500,000 names indexed
Photograph Collection
o 57,000+ digitized
Oral History Recordings
o 325 hours
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
22. Thank you and stay in touch with us!
JDC Global Archives
Website: http://archives.jdc.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/jdcarchives
Shachar Beer
Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives
ShacharB@jdc.org.il
Mary Haberle
Digitization Project Manager
mary.haberle@jdcny.org
Twitter @littleclamator
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
