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DIGITIZATION OF LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS IN PUBLIC LIBRARY
“VLADISLAV PETKOVIC DIS” IN CHACHAK:
DIGITIZATION OF THE NEWSPAPER “THE VOICE OF CHACHAK”
Bogdan Trifunovic, M. A. History
Local History Collections
Public Library “Vladislav Petkovic Dis”
Program overview
• The digitization program of Local History Collections was introduced in Public library “Vladislav Petkovic Dis” in 2006.
• It has been developed mostly relying on internal resources
• Two main aims of the program:– Preservation– Accessibility
Digital Library
• 1st version in 2006• Completely new framework was build at
the end of 2007 (using freelance programmer)
• Features:– MySQL, PHP architecture– Metadata– Searchable keywords, titles and authors– OCR and full-text search for selected publ.
Digitization of “The Voice of Chachak”
• The most important newspaper in Chachak• The biggest collection, comprises more then
50 years and several dozens of thousands of digital documents (1932-1995)
• Large formats (>A3)• Most of the collection was microfilmed
(NBS), some years must be digitized with digital camera due to poor condition of the microfilm
Technical aspects
• Scanned and microfilmed materials (after processing in software for image manipulation) is preserved in TIFF format, 300 dpi (Master copy)
• JPEG format for Internet usage
• Digital Camera (8MP, 12x optical zoom)
• Unique database record for every digital document
Browsing and searching the collection
• Users could browse every number separately
• For every page there are keywords, generated from the titles and content of the page
• The whole collection is searchable by keywords, regardless if Latin or Cyrillic letters are used