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Digitisation Activities

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Content

• Activities of the National and University Library

• Activities of other Croatian libraries

• Activities of other Croatian cultural institutions: archives, museums etc.

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1995.• Project “Croatian Drawings” at the NUL• 204 drawings / The Collection of Prints • authors from 19. and 20. century• database on CD-ROM • access via WebPAC

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2001.

• Project “Treasures of the National and University Library” (4 special collections at the NUL)

• 72 items digitised: manuscripts, books, librettos, maps, drawings…

• Xerox equipment• products: CD-ROM, free access via library

WebPAC

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Goals and benefits of the pilot-project

• practical experience - “learn by getting dirty hands”

• the project resulted in a tender for new equipment

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Cataloguing issues

• There is no “specialised” standard for cataloguing digital reproduction

• UNIMARC format• ISBD(ER) and other ISBD standards• UNIMARC guidelines for electronic resources &

UNIMARC guidelines for microforms • Integrated Library System CROLIST

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Decisions we made

• to create new bibliographic record for digitised reproduction, linked with the record of the original

• to create a “hybrid” record for all digital versions:

– master copy (TIFF, on CD-ROM or DVD)– locally accessed copy (JPG, reduced version on

CD-ROM) – remotely accessed copy (Web versions)

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2 bibliographic records

Original ReproductionCD-ROM (master TIFF)

CD-ROM (JPG)

Web versions (3 access versions JPG)

New notes: note on access, material description, copyright...

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2002-2003.

• digitisation policy was made:– the digitisation project– the guidelines

• new equipment - in a process of acquisition• the digitisation activities will start in June 2003. • possible obstacles: lack of staff, lack of “the safe

depository system” • long-term preservation?

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Co-operation with other libraries

• Hungarian National Library (Bibliotheca Eruditionis)

• Bibliotheca Zriniana

• International Children’s Digital Library- www.icdlbooks.org

• 8 Croatian books digitised

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Project in other Croatian libraries

• University Library Rijeka - digitised collection of old books and manuscripts

• City Library Varaždin - digitised local newspapers• Croatian Academy of Science and Arts -

“Illustrated library catalogue” - digitised title pages linked with bibliographic records

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Other institutions

• Croatian State Archive Zagreb - a digital collection of archival material and old maps

• Museums - few projects on digitising museums’ documentation

• “Digital Library” - Faculty of Information Sciences Zagreb

• Digitised works of Croatian poet Silvije Strahimir

Kranjčević / The Jesuit College Zagreb• ALM seminars - since 1997. - promote co-operation within the

environment of the global information infrastructure http://jagor.srce.hr/akm

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Croatian Web resources

• Croatian legal deposit law includes “online resources” (1997.)

• voluntary deposit statement - 2001.

• since 2000.: – bibliographic control of Web resources

• since 2002.: – selective harvesting of Croatian Web resources -

books and serials

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Plans for the future

• to promote the usage of standards • to maintain the Croatian Registry of Digital

Masters in order to avoid duplication• co-operation with other institutions • international projects