DANTEC involvement in digitizing the holdings of the Center for Jewish Art
Yael Reem, DANTEC,
pdf file with the 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
3. Dantec and the Judaica Division
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Dantec was founded in 1986
Dantec is the vendor that executes Judaica digitization
and meta data projects on behalf of Harvard’s Judaica
division
Examples of projects:
Kol Israel – Rashut Hashidur
Central Zionist Archive (CZA)
Galil Project - Beit Yigal Alon
Jewish National Found (JNF)
and more
5. Project Overview
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Joint Project of:
Center
for Jewish Art
National Library of Israel
Harvard University (via Dantec)
Volumes:
Initial
estimation ~180,000 items
To date ~ 201, 000 items (Jan-Aug 2013)
Still to be digitized ~ 35,000 items (pending CJA)
6. Project Scope
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Negatives >>, Slides,
Photos, Blueprints,
Information sheets >>,
Research papers >>
Documented by
many researches
along many years,
using different
documentation
methods
Verity of
Medias
Items’
storage &
distribution
Raw
material
Unified Objects
Folders, Boxes,
Envelops, CDs
distributed in
many locations
7. What is an Object?
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An object is a library of items
that belong to same topic
Scanning accompanied by
technical excel
Allows effective documentation
process
Special sorting software
program sorts the scanned items
to the relevant object library
Scanning
TIF,
JPG
Technical
Documentation
Excel
Sort to objects
SW
8. Project status in Harvard
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~42,000 images already loaded to Harvard’s
system
The data will be loaded to Alef system in the
coming days