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

Thanks for your attention!

Any questions?

Bogdan Trifunovicbtrifunovic@gmail.com