c3 shachar beer_maryheberles_ajdc-archive
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Shachar Beer and Mary Haberle AJDC: The digitisation of the American Joint Distribution Committee Archive 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.ilTRANSCRIPT
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Digitization of the JDC Archives
Shachar Beer, Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives
Mary Haberle, Digitization Project Manager, JDC Global Archives
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Presentation Overview
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
1. Institutional Context for Digitization
2. Goals of Digitization
3. Scope of Digitization
4. Digitization Program Workflow
5. Quality Assurance Tools
6. Partnership with Judaica Europeana
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Mission and History of JDC
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Mission and History of JDC
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Global Reach
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Global Reach
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Treasures from the Archives
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Use of JDC Archives
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Use of JDC Archives
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Goals of Digitization
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Scope of Digitization at JDC
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Textual Collections
o Digitized material spans 1914 to 1989
o Grant 1: 1.8 million pages
o Grant 2: 600,000 pages
Names Index
o Transmission Bureau records and other lists of
genealogical value
o ~500,000 names indexed
Photograph Collection
o 57,000+ digitized
Oral History Recordings
o 325 hours
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Text Collections Workflow Overview
PRESENTATION TITLE
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Workflow: Scanning Microfilm
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Partner: The Crowley Company in the U.S.
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Workflow: Digitization
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Partner: Digital Divide Data (DDD) in Laos
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Workflow: Digitization
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Compounding Images into Documents
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Workflow: Digitization
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Metadata Creation
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Workflow: Digitization
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Metadata Quality Control
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Workflow: Digitization
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Import XML Creation
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Workflow: Import and Export
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
Partner: IDEA-ALM in Israel
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Quality Assurance Tools
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Partnership with Judaica Europeana
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
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Thank you and stay in touch with us!
DIGITIZATION OF THE JDC ARCHIVES
JDC Global Archives
Website: http://archives.jdc.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/jdcarchives
Shachar Beer
Acting Director, JDC Jerusalem Archives
Mary Haberle
Digitization Project Manager
Twitter @littleclamator