1. 1 The Digitization Centre at Goettingen State and University Library Andrea Rapp rapp@sub.uni-goettingen.de Goettingen State and University Library www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/GDZ

2. 2 Table of Content Brief introduction: Library Context Brief Introduction: Goettingen Digitization Centre in general Projects – Examples Travel Literature, North-Americana Mathematica Early Zoological Literature Online Gutenberg Bible

3. 3 Goettingen Digitization Centre Department of the Goettingen State and University Library Founded in 1997 and for 4 years funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) National and international support and service-centre for (retro-)digitization

4. 4 The Goettingen Digitization Centre C o-ordinating national efforts towards standardization Testing and providing tools and techniques for image capture and text conversion, bibliographic description, document management, and the provision of online access to digital collections Building up professional responsibility concerning the whole digitization process (methodical and technical) within the library department

5. 5 Main activities of the GDZ Make available printed material in a user friendly way via WWW Rare and unique records, e.g. rara, incunabula and manuscripts Mass-digitization, e.g. science journals Service for projects, academic institutions and publishers: production of digital images Integration of special research aspects About 2 million pages on the GDZ server available

6. 6 Bibliographical and Structural Metadata Format: RDF/XML (Ressource Description Framework/eXtensible Markup Language) Migration to METS (Metadata and Transmission Standard): more detailed and more flexible Storage and access with document-management- system Standards Interoperability Long term preservation

7. 7 Online Library Catalogue Necessary for acceptance of the digital library For the GDZ - first step of the whole digitization process PICA-production-number as identifier of the digitized work Direct link: GBV union catalogue or local OPAC to the GDZ-document-server via http- protocol

8. 8 TIFF-Header: allows exact identification of each image – even if folder structures are destroyed Bibliographical Metadata: for presentation and retrieval PPN = Pica Production Number = Identifier

9. 9 Structural Metadata Aim is to offer an electronic table of contents with direct links to the digitized works and a user-friendly navigation

10. 10 Union Library Catalogue

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12. 12 Metadata: Search mechanisms and navigation

13. 13 Navigation

14. 14 Document-Management-System AGORA: developed together with Satz-Rechen-Zentrum Berlin Relational database driven for import and export For access, searching and navigation

15. 15 Projects (examples) Creating digital content together with new technical features Travel Literature, North-Americana Mathematica Early Zoological Literature Online Gutenberg Bible

16. 16 Travel Literature and Early Northamericana Special Subject Collection SUB Anglo-american Language and Literature Very extensive bookholdings / records Starting point for the GDZ Experience in Digitization of historic and rare books Development of Document model Development of Documentmanagementsystem (AGORA) Development of Scan Software (ProScan Book)

17. 17 Technical Informations Image capturing: text material in 600 dpi, 1bit as TIFF ITU Group 4 format, illustrations up to 8bit grayscale with Zeutschel Omniscan 7000 book-cradle glass-plate scanning-head

18. 18 Mathematica at Goettingen Long Tradition at Goettingen University: e.g. Carl Friedrich Gauss David Hilbert Emmy Noether Digital Collection ‚Mathematica‘ at SUB / GDZ largest collection: about 800.000 pages online Monographs Multivolume works Journals

19. 19 Expanded document model Scientific journals Scientific literature 20th century Co-operation with Prof. Wegner, Berlin, Editor in Chief of ‚Zentralblatt für Mathematik‘ (reference journal) Database: Zentralblatt and ‚Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik‘ (two central reference journals): searchable Interlinking of ‚Jahrbuch database‘ and GDZ document server with the retrodigitized referenced articles Mathematica

20. 20 Mathematica

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22. 22 Early Zoological Literature Online Cooperation with the Institute for Zoologyat Goettingen University, Prof. Rainer Willmann Fulltext digitization of Carl von Linnés base reference work of zoological nomenclature Linking with descriptions and literature he quoted Building up a zoological database, important for the recent research in the field of biodiversity

23. 23 Zoological database: www.animalbase.de Role model: FishBase Chance: All species: 10.000.000 1. phase: all species described until 1770 (about 10.000)

24. 24 Technical informations Image capturing: colour images with i2s digiBook, 400 dpi (2 x A2) to 700 dpi (2 x A4) book-cradle glass-plate was especially developed for the needs of the GDZ scanhead: goes in two directions, very fast scanning

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26. 26 High Quality Colour Digitization Goettingen Gutenberg Bible (B42, about 1454 ) One of the four extant completely preserved copies on vellum Available freely on the Internet and on CD-ROM (Saur Publishing House) www.gutenbergdigital.de

27. 27 Special workspace for manuscripts and fragile materials Book cradle; prototype developed at University Library of Graz camera book-cradle suction bar an analogue camera with digital scan- back: Anagram PictureGate 8000, resolution up to 9700 x 8000 (ca. 400 MB per pageimage)

28. 28 High Quality Colour Digitization Goettingen Gutenberg Bible (B42, about 1454 ) One of the four extant completely preserved copies on vellum Goettingen Model Book: Comparing illuminations Helmasperger‘s Notarial Instrument (6.11.1455): legal document Digitized, scholarly annotated and interlinked Available freely on the Internet and on CD-ROM (Saur Publishing House) www.gutenbergdigital.de

29. 29 Goettingen Gutenbergbible (B42, ca. 1454 )

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32. 32 Providing high quality and user friendly access to important and rare material of the library Providing access to a huge amount of digital material to increase the acceptance of the digital library To develop a coherent graphical user interface for all collections To make all materials, which are copyright free, freely available on the web Searchable not only with our own document server but with union catalogue and OPAC Access according to the needs of users (metadata, structural data) Cooperations with other institutions, libraries and scholars worldwide to build up the Distributed Digital Research Library Conclusion - Aims and policies

33. 33 Thank you very much for your attention! Questions? Andrea Rapp rapp@sub.uni-goettingen.de Goettingen State and University Library www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/GDZ