RF1 - Pecha Kucha: More efficient digitization, from scanner to presentation
Channel: OpenRepos2012
Date: 11/07/2012

This talk was a Pecha Kucha from Session RF1 at Open Repositories 2012 (http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/). 

"More efficient digitization, from scanner to presentation" - Marina Muilwijk, Utrecht University Library, Netherlands, The

This paper was originally proposed by: Marina Muilwijk, Martin Slabbertje, The Utrecht University Library, Netherlands.

Utrecht University Library has been digitizing its Special Collections for over a decade. Over the years, half a dozen different websites were created to present the results to the public. After the first few years, the library installed DSpace. From then on, the masterfiles from the digitization where archived. But none of the websites made direct use of DSpace.

In 2010 we started a major project to replace our outdated Special Collections websites with something new. One of the main requirements was to use the DSpace repository as the basis for the archiving and dissemination of metadata and for the generation of display versions of the master files.

We will show the changes we made by way of "before and after" images.

First we had a confusing variety of databases, websites and processes. Now we have a single, easy to manage process from digitization request to presentation on a single website.

We also list some of the problems we faced in getting to where we are now. For instance: a million new jpg files had to be generated, which took rather longer than we had first anticipated.