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by Inge Moris (City Archives Leuven) Colloquium Itinera Nova. Tools, people & history April 25th, 2013
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Itinera NovaThe road travelled so far
Itinera Nova: Phase 1
• March 2009 – December 2012• Cultural heritage project• Aimed at development• Financed by
– Flemish Government– City of Leuven– Cera
• Evaluation– Steering committee– Professional users group– Financers
Itinera Nova
New ways to the disclosure of archival sources
• Archival sources• Hand-written sources• Digital disclosure • Innovation
Registers of the scabinal court
• Voluntary jurisdiction in Leuven• Handwritten• Voluminous:
– 1,128 registers– Ca. 950,000 pages
Registers of the scabinal court
• Long period: 1362-1795• ‘Officialese’• Study object for many disciplines
Digital disclosure
• What?– Bulkdigitization– Digital disclosure of content
• Profound• Superficial
• Who?– Volunteers
• Trained• Online• Monitored
Bulkdigitization
• Best practice bulkdigitization• Online Manual: www.faronet.be:
POPPE, J., Handboek digitaliseren van documenten. Addendum: ‘Het Itinera Nova-project als praktijkvoorbeeld’
Bulkdigitization
• How?– Professional bookscanner
• Who?– Professional firm– City archives
• When?– 10 years
• Goals?• Public?
Bulkdigitization
• Steps– Preparing the registers
Bulkdigitization
• Steps– Preparing the registers– Scanning: TIFF
Bulkdigitization
• Steps– Preparing the registers– Scanning: TIFF– Control– Conversion to JPEG and Tiled TIFF– Archiving– Images online
Bulkdigitization: outsourcing
• Extensive assignment description• Demoscans = standard• Working visit• Profound judgement price-quality• Realistic work-flow• Transport• Testscans
– Enough– Representative– Discuss
• Profound control
Bulkdigitization: insourcing
• Defining quality level• Professional equipment and atmosphere:
– Scanner – Lighting– Darkened room
• Scan operators– Involved– Accurate– Trained– Volunteers
• Profound control– Sharpness– Completeness (image + register)– Colours– Naming
Digital disclosure of content
• Development by HKI University Cologne:– Database
• Images• Created acts• Full transcriptions• Annotations
– Website– ‘Indexing’ tool– Transcription tool– Annotation tool
• Focus on period 1362-1460
Website: Browse
Website: Browse
Website: Search
Digital disclosure of content
• ‘Indexing’ tool– Create act– Provide act with metadata
• Name of act: e.g. R°25.3– R° or V°– Folio number– Number of act on page
• Assign image(s) to act• Language• Aldermen• Type of act• Date• Possibility to insert transcription from MSWord
‘Indexing’ tool
‘Indexing’ tool
Digital disclosure of content
• Transcription tool– Profound disclosure– Dutch acts– Indexed acts– Split screen– Online input
• Log-in• Time- & place independent
– Easy to use• For volunteers• For correctors
Transcription tool
Transcription tool
Transcription tool
User’sSpace
Corrector’sSpace
PublicSpace
Transcription
Correction
OK for publ. Publication
Digital disclosure of content
• Annotation tool– Superficial disclosure– Latin acts– Images– Index categories
• Person name• Profession• Person: function• Street name• Building: name• Building: function / Institution• Nickname• Place name• Micro toponym
Annotation tool
Annotation tool
Annotation tool
Volunteers: tasks
• Transcribing Time- & place independent
• Annotating Digital volunteers
• Preparing registers• Scanning In the city archives
• Image editing
Volunteers: training
• Paleography courses• Personal coaching• Training by external specialists• Online tutorial
– Introduction paleography 15th C.– How to work with the website and the transcription tool– Link on www.itineranova.be
Online tutorial
Newsletter
• Register on www.itineranova.be– Latest news– Announcement activities– Focus on an expression– Focus on an act
Results
• Development/publication of:– Manual bulk digitization– Transcription tool– Annotation tool– Tutorial
• Preliminary outcomes:– 40% of the registers digitized
• 304 online• 128 waiting
– 10,500 transcriptions online– Online and offline community of 30-35 volunteers
Itinera Nova
“20 years ago it started off with a dream of mine to do something with my registers. Today it has become so much more than that.”
Thank you to everyone who believes in our project.
Thank you especially to our community of volunteers.