Transcript Croatian Digitisation Projects of Newspapers and Journals

CROATIAN DIGITISATION PROJECTS OF
NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS – AN OVERVIEW
RENATA PETRUŠIĆ, JASENKA ZAJEC
National and University Library in Zagreb
The Seventh SEEDI Conference:
Digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage
Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 17-18, 2012
Motives
• Urgent need to preserve and provide access to scarce
and valuable collections of newspapers and journals in
heritage institutions
Because they are:
• materials of great cultural significance
• keepers of the past events, historical, social, cultural, local
Who digitises?
• Heritage institutions (libraries, archives, museums)
• Publishers
• Owners of valuable, unique collections
Timeline
• 2000 – digitisation efforts in Croatia
• 2001 – digitisation in National and University Library in
Zagreb
• 2008 – the establishment of
Croatian Cultural Heritage
www.kultura.hr
• national digitisation project of archival, library and museum material
• Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
Croatian Cultural Heritage
www.kultura.hr
• coordinated by:
National and University Library in Zagreb
Croatian State Archives
Museum Documentation Centre
• National digitisation strategy
• Recommendations and instructions for digitising
institutions
Digitisation Projects of Newspapers and
Journals in Croatia
• 31 projects
• 18 libraries
• 3 museums
• 4 publishers
• 1 association
• 1 private company
• 1 individual
Reasons and aims
• Better access to resources (58%)
• Protection of old
and valuable materials (45%)
• Local interest and importance (29%)
• Frequency of use (25%)
• Creation of digital library (6%)
Duration
• Start year:
• 2005 – 1 project
• 2007 – 2 projects
• 2008 – 5 projects
• 2009 – 9 projects
• 2010 – 7 projects
• 2011 – 5 projects
• unknown – 2 projects
• Duration:
• 1 year – 13 projects
• 2 years – 6 projects
• 3 years – 2 projects
• 4 years – 1 project
• ongoing – 9 projects
Realisation
100%
17 projects
In
process
6
projects
50%
4
projects
No information
4 projects
Selection criteria
• old, valuable material
• local interest
• frequency of use
• significant title
• institutional collection
• no information
29%
39%
16%
29%
13%
13%
Copyright
Public domain
Under copyright
Digitised by the publisher
58%
19%
22%
Availability
• Website
58%
• Hosted website
22%
• In institution only 13%
• Not yet available 6%
Search
• Full text
• Full text, by title, by year
• Advanced
• No search function
30%
21%
34%
17%
Metadata
• 15 projects (48%)
Financing
• Ministry of Culture
• Host institution
• Local government
• Private company
81%
38%
13%
6%
In conclusion
• Aims and selection criteria of digitisation projects in
Croatia are similar to other digitisation projects and
comply to the national strategy and recommendations
• One half of the digitised resources is public domain
BUT
• One half of the digitised resources are not described by
metadata
• There is no search function in 17% of projects, or the
search needs to be significantly improved in ≈ 70% of
projects
The Cooperative Portal of Croatian Historic
Newspapers and Journals
• One-stop access point for Croatian historic newspapers
and journals
• The first specialised cooperative portal created within the
framework of the national portal Croatian Cultural
Heritage
• Enables cooperative input of metadata, digital images and
contextual information
• Metadata aggregator
Thank you!
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