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ICADS Topic: Digital Ingest & Storage


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Theme: Managing digital collections

This page provides links to information about initiatives and innovative projects relating to Digital Ingest and Storage at the national libraries contributing to ICADS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies). For more general information on the topic follow the PADI Topic links below.

What's in scope?

  • Technical ingest issues for different digital formats
  • Policy and management of questions of authenticity and variability of digital content
  • Scalability of digital storage solutions.

For additional resources

see PADI Topics: Formats & Media, Authenticity and Storage.

ICADS libraries contributing to the topic:

British Library | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | Library of Congress | National Library of Australia

British Library

Digital Library Programme
The British Library’s strategic vision is to “provide both physical and digital access to world-class information where and when people need it". These pages describe the Library's strategy for creating a critical mass of digital content by both collecting new published works in digital form and through the digitisation of the physical collections.
Contact: Roderic Parker
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/digi/dom/index.html
(Contributor: British Library; Added: 24 Feb 2009; Updated: 10 Jun 2010)
IMPACT - IMProving ACcess to Text
IMPACT is a project funded by the European Commission. It aims to significantly improve access to historical text and to take away the barriers that stand in the way of the mass digitisation of the European cultural heritage. The British Library is one of the 15 partners working across 11 countries. The IMPACT project will develop improved OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technologies in order to overcome the inadequacies of current techniques in dealing with historic materials.
Contact: Neil Fitzgerald
http://www.impact-project.eu/
(Contributor: British Library; Added: 22 Jun 2009; Updated: 10 Jun 2010)

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

IMPACT - Improving access to text
In its i2010 vision for the European Digital Library, the EU has formulated the ambitious plan of digitizing the entire printed European heritage. Current OCR techniques can only be deployed to a limited extent on valuable historical material. The recognition of old typefaces, older spelling variations or complex layouts in newspapers is producing unsatisfactory results at present.

The aim of the IMPACT project is to overcome obstacles to setting up the European Digital Library. The project unites 15 national and regional libraries, research institutes and companies - all competence centers with a great deal of experience in mass digitization. The project involves the development of new software applications for improved OCR, and making these available together with related information via an open source Internet platform, thereby creating the basis for a range of mass digitization programs.

Contact: Martina Tumulla
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/impact.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Added: 5 Mar 2009; Updated: 10 Jun 2010)

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Library of Congress

BagIt File Package Format
As part of the National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress, and the Web-at-Risk Project, the Library and its partners have developed a specification for transferring digital content called BagIt. BagIt is a hierarchical file package format for the exchange of generalized digital content. A "bag" has just enough structure to safely enclose a brief "tag" and a payload but does not require any knowledge of the payload's internal semantics. This BagIt format should be suitable for disk-based or network-based file package transfer, the area in which the Library is experimenting with the specification.
Partner: California Digital Library at the University of California
Contact: Andy Boyko
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/tools/docs/bagits
pec.pdf
(Contributor: Library of Congress; Added: 2 Jun 2009; Updated: 10 Jun 2010)
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
The goal of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress (LC) and the United States National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is to provide enhanced access to United States newspapers. Over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories, published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress and be freely accessible via the Internet. As part of the project, standards such as METS, MARC, MODS and PREMIS have been used to enable the efficient creation of union access to these resources. A prototype of this digital resource was launched in March 2007, "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, and a new release will be coming out in 2009.
Partners: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); contributing institutions.
Contact: Mark Sweeney
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp
(Contributor: Library of Congress; Added: 2 Jun 2009; Updated: 10 Jun 2010)

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National Library of Australia

Prometheus Digital Preservation Workbench
Prometheus is a semi-automated, scalable process for transferring data from physical carriers to preservation digital mass storage, helping to mitigate the major risks associated with physical carriers i.e. deterioration of the media and obsolescence of the technology required to access them. The system incorporates a range of primarily open source tools, to undertake processes including media imaging, file identification and metadata extraction. The tools are deployed as services within a service-oriented architecture, with workflow processes that use these services being coordinated within a customised system architecture utilising Java based web services.
Contact: David Pearson
http://prometheus-digi.sourceforge.net/
(Contributor: National Library of Australia; Added: 18 Dec 2008; Updated: 10 Jun 2010)

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Related Topics: ICADS Topic: Digital Archiving | ICADS Topic: Digital Preservation | ICADS Topic: Digital Resource Discovery | ICADS Topic: Digital Rights Management | ICADS Topic: Digitisation | ICADS Topic: Web Archiving

Broader Topic: ICADS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies)

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