2014 EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
http://2014.minervaisrael.org.il
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
2. Content
Judaica Library digitized collections volume –
cooperation with Israeli bodies and
photographers
Ongoing Projects
Digitized collections creation – The Challenge
and The building process
3. Judaica Library collection volumes –
cooperation with Israeli bodies and
photographers
Israeli bodies
Independent photographers
4. Cooperation with Israeli bodies
CZA: images, posters and maps -
800,000
JNF-KKL: images -
650,000
Galil Project: images, audio and video -
1,000,000
The Central Archives for the History of the
Jewish People – Alliance France: microfilm -
800,000
Kol Israel: audio - 30,000 hrs
Center For Jewish Art:
images, documents and drawings ` -
220,000
The Israeli center for the documentation of the
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7. Ongoing projects
Israel Sun Ltd: 1,800,000
The Israel Museum: 20,000
Bat Sheva: 30,000
The Israeli Cartoon Museum: 170,000
Yosef Ross: 50,000
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9. Digitized collections creation – The
Challenge
Conversion of an existing analog database into
a digitized one
Dealing with numerous different categorizing
disciplines
Dealing with numerous items types (microfilm,
slides, photos, posters, maps, very large items),
physical condition
Information Decoding
Information Enrichment
11. Digitization Process
Local
Archive
Dantec
Harvard
Visit Local
Archive
site
Batch
preparation
Project
Analysis
and
Planning
Initial DB
preparation
Scanning
DB
validation
Create files in
local archive
format
DB
creation for
local
archive
Translatio
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Time QA point
Content Enrichment
14. Digitization Process
Harvad’s Specifications
Local
Archive
Dantec
Harvard
Create
Files in
Harvard’s
format
Filtering &
Deletion of
files
Categorization
Create
Batch XML
Olivia XML
Shipment
Files and
XMLs’
load
QA point
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Time
Content QA / Enrichment
The cooperation resulted in large volumes of images, and here are some figures to demonstrate the extent of the work.
Additional material is there
I would like to show you that it is not an easy process and it is not only about scanning.
The technical scanning is the easy part.
3 participants
Visit to the local archive – can be eseveral times.
The understanding of the project is crucial to understanding what and how would we scan and categorize
e.g. Tzafrir project of the Israeli museum – we scanned the envelopees and the notes that were attached to the imagese, which gives the local archive the ability to search by, otherwise would have been lost
Holon museum (caricatures) – we ebuilt an exccel spreadsheet that the museum filled, which gave the DB the combination of the fields that are neot necessarily relevant to harvard.
* Scanned a few examples to measure the dpi and the size of the image that will eventually be presented in the local archive.
SCAN – adjust the scan method to the physical – frames that keep damaged slides
Clean the film
Translation – why is it important to open every file?
For example we got a title of “Namer” in English = Tiger.
In fact one it was a child that was dressed as a tiger and in another is was a group of soldiers who volunteered in the Hatasha war
After the srika – and now starts the Hard word
Caricatures
Israeli SUN
Original: Yom Kippur
Post enhancement – 101 km from Kahir, where the seize-fire agreement was signed.
Olivia – Cataloging System
VIA – Virtual Information Access
Deletion – In the Haramati collection you saw yesterday, a lot of picture variations for the same play – different expression
