Digitisation and digital libraries in the NL of the Czech Republic An overview Jan Hutař, NL ČR

In next 40 minutes… Intro Kramerius Manuscriptorium IOP/NDK 10/30/20152UISK Summer Seminar

Intro we started in the middle of 90s digitization advantages – access etc. our main aim – preservation users were only second focus one of the first European libraries with real digitiz. programme – very active in the field – leader of development today we are far behind the others……  10/30/20153UISK Summer Seminar

Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica MMSB started in 1992 as part of UNESCO Memory of the World Programme > on its own later on to provide access through digital copies of Czech cultural heritage (manuscripts first) VISK 6 first steps – establishing of digitization dept. + testing of technology processes – structure, settings, compression, resolution, user interface etc. 10/30/20154UISK Summer Seminar

MMBS cont. many of NK documents were digitized completely Antifonář Sedlecký (Antiphonarium Sedlecense) one of the oldest Czech music books published as CD-rom - first completely digitized medieval manuscript on the world! CD > digital repository 10/30/20155UISK Summer Seminar

Manuscriptorium outcome of the UNESCO „Memory of the World“ initiative in images on CD-ROM – impossible to use images outside the CD 2001 images on the Internet – only thumbnails 2004 complete and HQ images on the Internet (licencing) 2007 very low subscription fee  2005 Jikji UNESCO award 2007 ENRICH project 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar6

Manuscriptorium cont. financed by NL (VISK 6), managed by AiP Beroun Ltd.AiP Beroun more than ( in total with ENRICH) pages the richest digital manuscript resource in Europe DL of manuscripts, old printed books and other source documents virtual research environment for historical resources virtual digital library of copies of images and full texts brings together information provided by collaborating partners (46) 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar7

Manuscriptorium cont. provides connectivity for all participating partners into: – JIB, EDLproject, M-CAST, TEL OAI-PMH, Z39.50 MARC21, DC, MODS, OpenM … own catalogue (search adjusted to special features for old books) interface for reading/studying of digital image (turning pages, OCR, notes etc. higher visit rate of partners local libraries for free 10/30/20158UISK Summer Seminar

ENRICH project eContentPlus program 2007>2009 to provide seamless and easy access to distributed digital representations of old documentary heritage from various European cultural institutions to create a shared virtual research environment especially for study of manuscripts, but also incunabula, rare old printed books, … builds on the Manuscriptorium Digital Library the project groups together almost 85% currently digitized manuscripts in the national libraries in Europe ( pages) target user groups are content owners/holders, ALM, researchers and general interest users 10/30/20159UISK Summer Seminar

ENRICH partners European Networking Resources and Information concerning Cultural Heritage 18 partners + many associated partners National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague – project coordinator Oxford University Computing Services, Oxford, United Kingdom NL of: Spain, Lithuania, Italy, Iceland, Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Turkey, Malta, Serbia 10/30/201510UISK Summer Seminar

Kramerius project started in 1997 – NL + 3 biggest regional libraries to save and provide access to bohemical documents printed on acid paper first periodicals > monographs to preserve the information for the future (paper carrier is not important) using by users was not possible – bad conditions of the documents first step to create technology background > set up the processes > digitizing this first phase was about microforms! hybrid method later from 2000 part of VISK 7 (MK support – not only for NL) not part of NL budget! 10/30/201511UISK Summer Seminar

VISK 7 between 2001 and 2008 done about 400 titles of periodicals ( pages) from 35 institutions NL provides archiving of film masters and digital masters + copies etc. digitized docs available through the Kramerius DL 10/30/201512UISK Summer Seminar

VISK 7 cont. VISK 7 budget is too low each year > too many large scale (extensive) periodicals (1850 till 1950) > digitization is too slow in-house + outsourcing the same money not only for digitization but for HW and SW + development a bit better last years (HW) ;-) 10/30/201513UISK Summer Seminar

Norway grants NL and Municipal library in Prague to save bohemical non-periodical documents from 19th century printed on acid paper hybrid method (not giving up microforms ;-) 2, pages/ books at NL financial support from EU - 1 mil EUR 10/30/201514UISK Summer Seminar

Kramerius system Kramerius system vs. Kramerius DL vs. project ;-) GNU GPL NL, AV + other 10 libraries system to provide access to digital documents from 2002 – NL, AV, Qbizm development money from VISK and MŠMT JAVA, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, PostgresSQL, Lucene 10/30/201515UISK Summer Seminar

Kramerius system DTD for periodicals and monographs big problem for other documents types and changes OCR in TXT, metadata XML (bibl., struct., preservat.); DjVu, JPG, PNG, PDF Convera, Lucene for full text search OAI-PMH even to the level of page METS UUID + handle > moving in Fedora SW this year 10/30/201516UISK Summer Seminar

Kramerius DL digital library at NL – periodicals and monographs from 19th century … connected into – JIB – TEL – CZ union catalogue – Europeana English interface [x] [x] 10/30/201517UISK Summer Seminar

Kramerius DL metadata always available metadata and full text search docs under copyright (1900?) only in the NL available turning pages, saving, pdf etc. DjVu plug-in > JPEG2000 soon 10/30/201518UISK Summer Seminar

NDK and IOP project NDK (general name for 3 present projects) IOP - structural funds of EU for new EU members (2005) joint project of NL and Moravian state library in BrnoBrno NDK is a strategic priority and candidate for European funding under the Integrated Operational Programme IOP (Smart Administration) 10/30/201519UISK Summer Seminar

Why!? NL has long tradition and good results (TEL, Europeana etc.) NL was awarded the first UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize for contribution to the preservation and accessibility of documentary heritage BUT digitization and digital preservation in CZ are significantly hindered by a lack of money, slowing digitization and preventing us from building a truly trusted (and certified) digital repository 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar20

IOP two main goals: – Acceleration of digitization (two digitization centers in Prague and Brno, mass digitization) – Long-term preservation of and access to digital objects (TDR, 2 locations) core of the Czech national cultural heritage is about 1.2 milion docs/ pages – 300 year with current speed – 20 year with IOP project 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar21

IOP possible results documents published in and since 1801: – 540,000 documents, 137 million pages (1060 TB of raw digital data in one locality, 60 TB fast access for users) historical documents published until 1800: – 20,000 documents, 9 million pages (50 TB of raw digital data in one locality, all fast access for users) WebArchive: – harvesting and archiving of 5 billion files (221 TB of raw digital data in one locality, all fast access for users) Trusted digital repository (certified by internal as well as external audits) User-friendly and customized access to digital content for various users. The total budget of the project should be 29 million EUR 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar22

HW SW overview Robotic scanners – 5x 4DigitalBooks4DigitalBooks – 5x TreventusTreventus manual scanners A2 + A0/A1 workflow SW – Goobi, CCS or other Archival SW (commercial) -DIAS (IBM) -Rosetta (ExLibris) -SDB (Tessella) -analysis, on site visits -LTP activity 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar23

Where are we now? -our analysis (policies, functional requirements, new building project etc.)> -feasibility study in June/July -project will start on September /30/2015UISK Summer Seminar24

WebArchiv -from yearly harvests + topic harvest -about 10TB of data -heritrix, wayback machine -IA, IIPC -part of NDK 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar25

Thanks for your attention! Questions? In case of late questions, dont hesitate send me an ;-) 10/30/2015UISK Summer Seminar26