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Sergi Machí - Local Project Coordinator

Robert Muñoz - Project stakeholder of MANRA

Helder Moreira - Project stakeholder of MANRA

"Digitization of libraries and archives"“

Mancomunidad de la Ribera Alta (MANRA)

The Mancomunidad de la Ribera Alta is…

• A Public Administration - Association of 35 municipalities gathering 220.616 inhabitants over

979,5 km2

• Aiming to promote activities and shared services between municipalities

• Located in the East of Spain, within the Province of Valencia

• Funded from municipalities contributions and other Public Administrations funds

Province of Valencia Ribera Alta RegionRegion of Valencia

Digitization of libraries and archives

LIBRARIES

• The Law 4/2011 of the Regional Government regulates the Network of Public Libraries of the Region of Valencia,

integrated by 443 public libraries.

• It regulates the centers of municipal public reading (422 centers).

• Aims of the centers of municipal public reading :

1. Promotion of reading

2. Self-training And formation of the citizens

3. Use of the new technologies of communication and information

4. To be active cultural centers and promoters of cultural activities

(presentations of books, clubs of reading, workshops of promotion of the reading, storytelling…)


MUNICIPAL PUBLIC READING CENTERS

• Municipal public libraries (municipalities of more than 5.000 inhabitants)

• Agencies of municipal public reading

• Services mobile librarians – BIBLIOBUS


ELECTRONIC NETWORK OF VALENCIAN PUBLIC READING

• Integrated by 305 centers of municipal reading (174 libraries and 128 agencies of reading)

Users adults: 1.646.586 – childish Users: 624.958 = 2.271.544 users

Loans: 5.524.975 documents / year

• In the Ribera Alta County

Municipal public Libraries: 12

Agencies of reading: 14

Other centers of municipal reading no integrated to the network: 9



Query of the back of each library of the network

In which libraries is the document (can be restricted by counties)

Location of the document

Conditions of loan or consults

Electronic Books

Availability of documents


ARCHIVES

The Law 3/2005 of the Generality regulates the files of the Valencian Community.

• Archives of State ownership managed by the Region of Valencia (Archive of the Kingdom of Valencia, provincial

historical archives…)

• Archives of Regional ownership (Archive of the Regional Government)

• Municipal archives


ARCHIVES

• SAVEX (Valencian Archive System Network) is the information system and integral management of the

archives of the Valencian Archive System.

• Some documents are already digitalized and can be viewed online.

• At the moment the archives integrated in SAVEX are:

5 historical archives

11 archives of the Valencian Regional Government

5 private archives

60 municipal archives

In coming phases, more municipal archives will be incorporated.


ARCHIVES

Consult the catalogue


ARCHIVES

Consult of digitized document


ARCHIVES

Action plan of the Valencian Regional Government

• To promote the digitization of documentary heritage managed by the Regional Government

• Increase funds for the digitization of the historical documents of the municipal archives

• Endowment of economic and human resources

• Training in the field of digitization

• Grants for professional practice for digitization

• Inter-administrative collaboration and with universities

Nowadays 3D has become a new and powerful form of expression, communication and knowledge

transmission. The mission of AD & D 4D is to apply the latest technologies not only as interactive illustrations,

but also as heuristic instruments of discovery.

In the publication of our model No. 99 we wanted to make a small tribute to Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and

in particular to his work El Quijote. It is a facsimile of one of the main works of Universal literature. Written in

1605 is the most translated work in the world after the Bible, The Koran and the complete works of Lenin.

Using the 3D model we will make a particular journey that will delve us into the history of this great work,

through the main sources of documentation that we have found on the internet.


For the realization of the 3D digital model.

All good practice when it comes to digitizing heritage is to establish a luminous and colorimetric control of the

object and the scene.

In this way we will guarantee a faithful reproduction of the color and luminosity of it, essential in the heritage

documentation.

In this case, we used a Color Checker Passport palette and its corresponding software


Once the scene is well illuminated with a homogeneous distribution of light, we proceed to the massive capture of images,

strategically distributed around the object, in this capture we have made 247. Always working with internationally recognized

standards, in this case DNG format.

Once all of them are in an image editor, we proceed to the management of color and luminosity.


We introduce the images in a photogrammetry program for the construction of the 3D digital model.

The process consists of the following steps:

• Cloud formation of scattered points and positioning and orientation of the cameras in space.

• Dense point cloud formation

• Creation of the mesh

• Textured

• Finally 3 metric control points are established to know the geometric precision of the object and give it scale.


We already have our object digitized in 3D, then we will use the

Sketchfab platform for its dissemination.

Currently Sketchfab is the main platform worldwide for the publication

of 3D objects .

At the beginning of 2017 it was signed an agreement with Europeana to

use this 3D viewer in the largest digital library in Europe.

Today there are more than 3,500 museums and cultural institutions

that use this platform to publish cultural heritage.

Museums and Cultural Institutions in Sketchfab


https://skfb.ly/66XtO


Application of the BNE (National Library of Spain) To be able to visualize the original books published in 1605 and 1615 (Part I and II) 1250 pages in OldCastilian, and its transcription, map of adventures, editions through time, engravings and drawings , life in the Spain of the XVII century, music dedicatedto Don Quixote and a video.

http://quijote.bne.es/libro.html


Don Quijote de la Mancha

Engraving of Gustave Doré /1870 Paris

http://www.elefantesdepapel.com/don-quijote-de-la-mancha


Cervantes Institute :

The "Translations of Quixote" collection consists of fifty translations of the first chapter of Don Quixote belonging to more than 200 works

in multiple languages, available in the library of the Cervantes Institute headquarters in Madrid: Albanian, German, Arabic, Bulgarian,Catalan , Czech, Chinese, Korean, Croatian, Danish, Slovenian, Esperanto, Estonian, Euskera, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, Greek,Hebrew, Hindi, Dutch, Hungarian, English, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Lithuanian , Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish,Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Yiddish, among others.

http://coleccionesdigitales.cervantes.es/cdm/landingpage/collection/quijote


Don Quijote / Links to Wikipedia

Español / inglés / francés/ ruso / chino / japonés /árabe / catalá / alemán /portugués / griego


https://goo.gl/XEyhRP

https://goo.gl/KKmXsX

https://goo.gl/WVH9Qw

https://goo.gl/UQJwZY

https://goo.gl/k1NDuq

https://goo.gl/yc8zup

https://goo.gl/aufrFK

https://goo.gl/EGhqia

https://goo.gl/gTTDIz

https://goo.gl/l64lk4

https://goo.gl/Zk83hA

Film / Don Quijote 1992 © RTVEhttp://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-quijote/quijote-capitulo-1/3573734/


http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/el-quijote/quijote-capitulo-1/3573734/

Cartoons/ 1979 © RTVEhttp://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/programas-y-concursos-en-el-archivo-de-rtve/don-quijote-mancha-serie-dibujos-animados-1979/456348/


Digitization of libraries and archivesIntroduction

In this presentation I will focus on one of the most important part of the “Digitization of

libraries and archives”

How to store the information after it has been digitalized

Note: One important component to be store is Metadata

Digitization of libraries and archivesDatabases

There are plenty of projects and guidelines for digitization's of libraries and archives.

And all of them use one of the Common Database Models for store information:

• HIERARCHICAL MODEL

• NETWORK MODEL

• RELATIONAL MODEL

• KEY/VALUE STORE MODEL

• WIDE-COLUMN MODEL

• DOCUMENT-ORIENTED MODEL

• GRAPH MODEL

• ……

Digitization of libraries and archivesDatabases

Despite the choose of type of storage for the digitalization's objects, there are always benefits and

disadvantages.

In the recent years there has been an important technological development that can

avoid/complement some disadvantages of the traditional Databases.

This technology is call Blockchain

Digitization of libraries and archivesBlockchain - Advantages

A blockchain, is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and

secured using cryptography. Each block typically contains a cryptographic hash of the previous

block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Main advantages• Distributed information • Immutable history

• Verifiable authenticity • Consensus

Digitization of libraries and archivesBlockchain - Distributed

The distributed nature of the Blockchain technology, is a guarantee that despite some nodes on the

network collapse, be offline/deleted , the information will continue to flow and be accessible.

Digitization of libraries and archivesBlockchain - Immutable history

All new blocks (information) are directed linked/validate to the previous block with an

mathematical function (hash) thus make it impossible to alter information, otherwise it

would break the integrity of the “signature” of all blocks.

Digitization of libraries and archivesBlockchain - Immutable history

The only way to alter an record is to add another

block with update information.

This insures that there is always a track record of

changes, and previous information is accessible.

No data is loss.

Digitization of libraries and archivesBlockchain - Consensus

Imagine that a group of librarians are assign with special privileges on the blockchain. In order to

insert a new block, a consensus is needed. This way we insure that no single person is in full

control of the information.

There can be different

consensus typologies,

or event different groups

with different skills.


Two main applications of Blockchain among other for Digitization of libraries and archives

1. Building a distributed, permission less metadata archive has perhaps the most disruptive

potential. Because blockchains operate as a type of informational ledger that don’t require a

centralized gatekeeping organization, they could be utilized to build a truly distributed metadata

system for libraries and related organizations. A blockchain OCLC Online Computer Library Center

, www.oclc.org), if you will. Such a system would be accessible to any who wished to be a part with

no additional expenditures and thus would scale cleanly, while still maintaining quality of data

through selective reading/output choice based on hash signing.

http://www.oclc.org/


Two main applications of Blockchain among other for Digitization of libraries and archives

2. Libraries and universities might use the blockchain for the Inter-Planetary File System

(IPFS), a peer to peer protocol for a future Internet that uses bitTorrent, GIT and

Blockchain. IPFS circumvents the gatekeeping of ISPs and large Internet companies.

Thank you!

• Sergi Machí• [email protected]

• Robert Muñoz• [email protected]

• Helder Moreira • [email protected]

Mancomunitat de la Ribera Alta

www.manra.org/en/

mailto:[email protected]



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