INTERNATIONAL

COLLABORATIONS

IN PRESERVING VISUAL

ART

DANTEC LTD

EVA/MINERVA NOVEMBER 2014

1

Judaica Library digitized collections volume –

cooperation with Israeli bodies and photographers

Ongoing Projects

Digitized collections creation – The Challenge and

The building process

Content

Israeli bodies

Independent photographers

Judaica Library collection volumes – cooperation

with Israeli bodies and photographers

Cooperation with Israeli bodies

CZA: images, posters and maps - 800,000

JNF-KKL: images - 650,000

Galil Project: images, audio and video - 1,000,000

The Central Archives for the History of the

Jewish People – Alliance France: microfilm - 800,000

Kol Israel: audio - 30,000 hrs

Center For Jewish Art:

images, documents and drawings ` - 220,000

The Israeli center for the documentation of the

performing arts – Yaacov Agor: Images - 300,000

Israel Museum: audio and video - 600 items

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Cooperation with independent photographers

Israel Haramati: 400,000

Itzhak Amit: 115,000

David Harris: 150,000

Reuven Milon: 55,000

Yossi Tzweiker: 55,000

Eyal Landesman: 125,000

Eldad Rafaeli: 250,000

Gadi Dagon: 15,000

Gerard Allon: 73,000

7

Ongoing projects

Ongoing projects

Israel Sun Ltd: 1,800,000

The Israel Museum: 20,000

Bat Sheva: 30,000

The Israeli Cartoon Museum: 170,000

Yosef Ross: 50,000

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The Challenge and The building process

Digitized collections creation

Digitized collections creation – The Challenge

Conversion of an existing analog database into a

digitized one

Dealing with numerous different categorizing

disciplines

Dealing with numerous items types (microfilm, slides,

photos, posters, maps, very large items), physical

condition

Information Decoding

Information Enrichment

Digitized collections creation – The Process

Digitization Process

Dantec

Local

Archive

Harvard

Visit Local

Archive site

Project

Analysis

and

Planning

Batch

preparation

Scanning

Initial DB

preparation

Create files in

local archive

format

DB

validation

DB creation

for local

archive

Translation

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3

4

4

5

5

6 7

13

QA point Time

Content Enrichment

14

Title: Yom Kippur.

Images dated 18/1/1974

15

Title:

Trucks

shipping food.

Year: 1970

Digitization Process Harvad’s Specifications

Dantec

Local

Archive

Harvard

Create Files

in Harvard’s

format

Filtering &

Deletion of

files

Categorization Create

Batch XML

Olivia XML

Shipment

Files and

XMLs’ load

QA point

8

9

9

10

11

12

16

Time

Content QA / Enrichment

17

18

19

INTERNATIONAL

COLLABORATION IN

PRESERVING VISUAL ART

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