education on digitisation and europeana for small memory institutions within the accessit plus...
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Presentation by Adam Dudczak PSNC, Poznan, Poland at: AccessITplus: Final project meeting 20 September 2013 Poznań, PolandTRANSCRIPT
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Education on digitisation and Europeana for small memory institutions within
the AccessIT Plus project Adam Dudczak
ACCESS IT plus final project meeting
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ACCESS IT plus
„The aim of the Access IT plus (http://accessitplus.eu) project is to help small memory institutions to develop their digital libraries and connect them to Europeana”
– Develop e-learning courses and help to create pilot digital libraries in target countries
– Project partners from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Serbia, Greece and UK
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ACCESS IT courses
• Reference ACCESS IT (http://dl.psnc.pl/moodle) e-Learning courses – “Digital repositories for small memory
institutions”
– “Cooperation with Europeana”
• Created mainly for people who work in small memory institutions
• Originally developed in English
• Based on Moodle platform
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ACCESS IT courses (2)
• First release of the courses in October 2010, second in the beginning of July 2012.
• Result of our work with institutions from Albania, B+H, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Turkey and UK
4 ACCESS IT workshop in Veria (Greece)
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ACCESS IT courses (3)
• Original (English version) available to anyone, free of any charge
• Content released under the terms of Creative Commons BY-SA-NC License
– Attribution, Share alike, Non-commercial
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Course translation and adoption
• Each partner prepared versions of the courses
– Adoption of courses content to local conditions
– Gathering local DL community in one place
• Courses are available in Albanian, Croatian, Greek, Polish, Serbian and Turkish
• Deployed in 7 countries so far.
• More 1 300 people graduated!
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Basic assumptions
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"Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant!"
Mitchell Kapor
Source: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Basic assumptions
8 Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilyrides/6042105078/
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Basic assumptions
• Course should be:
– Practical – only necessary theory illustrated with practical examples
– Non-technical - it is for librarians, not for computer programmers!
• Simple recipes for complex problems?
– Not always possible
• Use of free (Open Source if possible) tools
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Digital Repositories for small memory institutions
• It consists of 9 topics divided in 29 modules
• By the end of each topic there is a quiz
• Course participants should have basic knowledge about computers and Internet
• Structure of the course is wrapped around the general digitisation workflow
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Digital Repositories for small memory institutions
• During the course you will learn how to: – Organize digitisation workflow
– Describe objects in order to make them more accessible
– Prepare digital content for web delivery
– Promote your objects in the Internet
– Assure objects availability in long term
– Evaluate usability and accessibility of digital library website
– Cooperate with other portals i.e. Europeana
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Digital Repositories for small memory institutions
• In the course there are practical instructions showing ways to:
– Perform graphical post-processing of the images,
– Scan and deliver large images over the network
– Use Optical Character Recognition to capture text from images in order to make it searchable
– Create PDF and DjVu documents to deliver textual documents
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Digital Repositories for small memory institutions
• In the course there are practical instructions showing ways to:
– Prepare audio and video material for online presentation
– Convert audio files between various formats
– Publish digital audio-visual content in digital library
– Get access to digital library - is it necessary to create DL on you own?
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Digital Repositories for small memory institutions
• Course shows how to publish digital objects using DSpace, Greenstone and dLibra
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Digital Repositories for small memory institutions
• Things which are not in the course:
– How to install and configure digital library software
• Too many technical problems potentially involved – too technical issue.
• In case of problems with this kind of things use course Forum, ask other participants or email us.
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Cooperation with Europeana
• It is much shorter it consist of 2 topics divided into 14 modules – First module groups non-technical things related to
Europeana – More technical things were described in second topic
• By the end of each topic there is a quiz • Course is dedicated to both repository managers
and people just want to know how Europeana-related things
• For second part some technical skills might be necessary
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Cooperation with Europeana
• During the course you will learn:
– Why and how Europeana was built
– Is it worth to cooperate with Europeana
– What benefits Europeana offers to end-users
– What is metadata aggregation and why it is so important
– Basics of Europeana Semantic Elements (ESE) and Europeana Data Model (EDM)
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Cooperation with Europeana
• During the course you will learn: – How to normalize and convert your metadata to
Europeana Semantic Elements?
– How to pass your resources to Europeana?
• Course features also a few additional modules which gives more insight into: – Some more advanced issues related to metadata
aggregation
– Political background of Europeana
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Cooperation with Europeana
• Things which are not in the course: – Setting up a metadata aggregator
• In case of problems with this kind of things take a look at list of aggregation software presented in – “What should I do when there is no aggregator
near me?”
• As far as we know this is quite unique initiative – no similar courses available.
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http://dl.psnc.pl/moodle
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• All tools necessary to implement digitisation workflow on a pendrive – http://digitlab.psnc.pl
• Dedicated Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit/64bit)
• You just need a computer which will be able to boot from a pendrive
• Some exemplary documents included
• It is possible to install DigitLab as a normal system
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• DigitLab offers access to quite a few well-known and widely used FLOSS tools
– Scan Tailor, GIMP, magicktailor, DjVuLibre, gScan2PDF, ImageMagick, Tesseract
• Three (DSpace, dLibra and Greenstone) digital libraries framework installed and ready to use
• MINT as a metadata aggregation tool
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• Download from - http://digitlab.psnc.pl
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Summary
• ACCESS IT plus courses are a comperhensive, constantly updated source of knowledge about digitisation and digital libraries
• DigitLab helps to implement recipes from the courses in practice and it is a perfect solution for both trainings and day-to-day work
• We are waiting for your feedback!
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Questions?
Adam Dudczak
• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @diglib_psnc, @maneo
• WWW:
– http://dl.psnc.pl
– http://digitlab.psnc.pl
– http://accessitplus.eu
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Thank you!