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New Life to Old Serials: Digitizing Back Volumes
Wendy C. Robertson The University of Iowa Libraries
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Introduction NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Are your institutions digitizing text?
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What do you read on a screen?
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Why? NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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As the traditional collectors and preservers of content, libraries should ensure their content remains accessible to a wide audience. NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Selection NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Do you have the rights to digitize the item?
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http://www.hathitrust.org/rights_database NASIG • St. Louis, MO
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A serial may be partially in the public domain.
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http://onlinebooks. library. upenn. edu/cce/firstperiod
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Has the title already been digitized?
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Does a digitized title have gaps?
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Assess your priorities to focus digitization time appropriately.
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Seek partners so that an entire run can be digitized.
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Scanning prioritized by book condition can yield a motley assortment of volumes.
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Scanning NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Digitization might be done for access or preservation.
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Standards and best practices are widely available.
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U Michigan naming U Iowa naming NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Presentation NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Think about how content will be used.
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Content is often presented as a bound object, not as a logical unit related to other materials.
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Creating PDFs NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Do the best OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that you can afford.
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Consider accessibility and mobile access when create PDFs.
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Default OCR option Not clearscan – text less crisp
Letters stretch when reflow chosen Default OCR option NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Clearscan NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Adding tags & soft hyphens
several "thousand dollars. [When]. Mother announced to her . her intentions of marrying father after she came of age .'. . the stepmother skipped out with all the funds, simply vanished, and mother was left penniless.,, 1 This itiformation was most welcome, for I had been able to say very little, in my edition of Mattie's letters some years earlier, about her life before she married into the Whitman family, and could only speculate on what was here confirmed: that she had been an orphan whose connections with kin had been largely if not entirely severed. 2 The interview in which this small but helpful revelation comes.is the most interesting part of the little-noticed Fansler' Collection of Whitman materials at Northwestern University.3 The forty-eight page hadwritten 'transcript, supplemented by a number of Miss Jessie's letters to the Adding tags & soft hyphens NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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PDF reflow & soft-hyphens with Goodreader
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Examples NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Random selection of volumes shown as related (v.3, 17 & 38)
Google books NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Random items not necessarily in same series Contents may list articles
but has OCR problems NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Search may display more information than book page
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HathiTrust - http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008162447
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http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000055609 NASIG • St. Louis, MO
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Internet Archive NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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http://illinoisharvest. grainger. uiuc. edu/collections. asp
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http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/ NASIG • St. Louis, MO
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CONTENTdm NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/dialogue,45 NASIG • St. Louis, MO
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Digital Commons NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Open Journal Systems NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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D-Space NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Unstructured web page NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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A Few More Things… NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Split content into articles if feasible, especially if an article is the reading unit.
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Ensure the PDF can be cited in isolation.
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Request an ISSN. NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Pay attention to title changes.
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Conclusion NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Be involved with your local digitization to bring a serials perspective.
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Resources NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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U.S. Copyright Office - http://www.copyright.gov/records/
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States - U.S. Copyright Office - Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database - Automated Bibliographic Rights Determination - NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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HathiTrust Rights Database - http://www.hathitrust.org/rights_database
Smith, Kevin. Copyright Risk and Reward in Mass Digitization. Presented at ARL annual meeting, May Ockerbloom, John Mark. The Next Mother Lode for Large-scale Digitization? Historic Serials, Copyrights, and Shared Knowledge. Presneted at Digital Library Federation Spring Forum. Apr NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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First copyright renewals for periodicals http://onlinebooks. library
Information about the Catalog of Copyright Entries DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters - Northeast Document Conservation Center. Reformatting. Preservation and Selection for Digitization - NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Maintenance Activity) http://www. loc
NARA’s Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access - DLF’s Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials - University of Michigan DLPS Digitization specifications - NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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ABBYY FineReader http://finereader.abbyy.com/
Omnipage OCRopus NASIG • St. Louis, MO 6/4/2011
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Thank you. Questions. wendy-robertson@uiowa. edu http://ir. uiowa
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